inconcealable

English

Etymology

in- +‎ concealable

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋkənˈsiːləbəl/

Adjective

inconcealable (comparative more inconcealable, superlative most inconcealable)

1. Not concealable.

   Synonym: unconcealable

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     For the inconcealable imperfections of ourselves, or their daily examples in others, will hourly prompt us our corruption, and loudly tell us we are the sons of earth.

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 709:

     He sits in Whitehall, the year folding around him, aware of the shadow of his hand as it moves across the paper, his own inconcealable fist.

References

• “inconcealable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.