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unadaptable
adjective as in inalterable
Strong match
Weak matches
- adamant
- adamantine
- determined
- dogged
- dyed-in-the-wool
- firm
- fixed
- hard
- hard-and-fast
- immovable
- immutable
- implacable
- indomitable
- inexorable
- intractable
- invariable
- iron
- ironclad
- obdurate
- obstinate
- relentless
- resolute
- rigid
- rigorous
- set
- set in one's ways
- single-minded
- stand one's ground
- staunch
- steadfast
- steely
- stiff
- strict
- stringent
- unbending
- unchangeable
- uncompliant
- uncompromising
- unrelenting
- unswayable
- unyielding
adjective as in inelastic
adjective as in inflexible
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Example Sentences
Guadagnino manages to adapt the otherwise unadaptable, challenging his actors as much as he does his audience.
Eventually, they hired German screenwriter and director Nora Fingscheidt, who became an indelible creative partner, even if at first she thought the book was “unadaptable.”
But I doubt others will mind this version’s deviations from a text that studio executives considered to be unadaptable for many years.
It’s an absurdist portrait of America on the verge of self-destruction adapted from a novel considered unadaptable.
DeLillo’s novel has long been considered to be “unadaptable” due to how it succeeded in telling an expansive yet intimate story of postmodern peril.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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