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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#m1)

2) (joking, euphemism) «Unmentionables» is a funny polite word for underwear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#x1)
- The smell in the boys' changing room was unmentionable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#x2)
- He hung his unmentionables on the washing line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#x3)
- For many years illness was an unmentionable subject in that family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#x4)
- Don't forget to pack your unmentionables, Dad joked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/#x5)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/5-drink-mind-and-body/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unmentionable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unmentionable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.