unmentionable

«unmentionable» in Mova's school dictionary: too rude, shocking, embarrassing or upsetting to talk about — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (unmentionable); noun (unmentionables — plural, joking)

meaning for a pupil

1) Unmentionable means too rude, shocking, embarrassing or upsetting to talk about. tree →

2) (joking, euphemism) «Unmentionables» is a funny polite word for underwear. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday talk, people use it to avoid naming something embarrassing; it is a euphemism. In comedy, «He forgot to pack his unmentionables» means his underpants. Phrases: an unmentionable subject, his unmentionables.

examples

• Grandma thinks some words are unmentionable at the dinner table. tree →
• The smell in the boys' changing room was unmentionable. tree →
• He hung his unmentionables on the washing line. tree →
• For many years illness was an unmentionable subject in that family. tree →
• Don't forget to pack your unmentionables, Dad joked. tree →

note

«Un-» + «mention» + «-able». As a plural noun it means underwear and is joking. A word or topic called «unmentionable» is one people avoid; that is how euphemisms work.

In the corpora

• "Unmentionables" is a humorous word for underwear.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unmentionable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.