undrainable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ drainable.

Adjective

undrainable (comparative more undrainable, superlative most undrainable)

  1. That cannot be drained.
    an undrainable pond
    • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
      It was as though it [the rain] defied the Castle's inmost faith; taunted it with a dull, ignorant descent of blasphemy, as though the undrainable clouds were muttering: 'What is an Earling to us? It is immaterial.'