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Unkissable vs Unkissably - What's the difference?

unkissable | unkissably |

As an adjective unkissable

is that cannot be kissed; not suitable for kissing.

As an adverb unkissably is

so as to preclude kissing.

unkissable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That cannot be kissed; not suitable for kissing.
  • unkissably

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • So as to preclude kissing.
  • * 1982 , Craig Strete, Dreams That Burn in the Night (page 52)
  • Just as he was ready to spring all two hundred pounds of him on the helpless lizard, his attention was distracted by a rather large snake of the unkissably poisonous variety.
  • * 2002 , Morton Levitt, Joyce and the Joyceans (page 173)
  • In any case, the unkissably shrewish Kate seems to be offering a bit of conspiratorial advice, "Slip around [the back]," as if to get away with something.
  • * 2003 , Louis Edwards, Oscar Wilde Discovers America (page 95)
  • Traquair watched Miss Trenton walk slowly back up the path to the house, where he saw Miss Grant standing with her hands covering her mouth, which he imagined was in its usual, unkissably open pose.