unfattenable

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fatten +‎ -able.

Adjective

unfattenable (comparative more unfattenable, superlative most unfattenable)

  1. That cannot be fattened.
    • 1854, William Graham, The Jordan and the Rhine; or, The East and the West, page 46:
      The cow is a large, raw, high-boned, unfattenable animal, and being regularly wrought in the cultivation of the soil the milk is bad.
    • 1963, Home Economics, volume 9, page 6:
      Of the many explanations that have been put forward one is that the unfattenable person consumes the calories by much greater muscular energy than the fattenable person.