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Unplayable vs Unplacable - What's the difference?

unplayable | unplacable |

As adjectives the difference between unplayable and unplacable

is that unplayable is unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all while unplacable is implacable.

unplayable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of an audio or visual recording) Unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all.
  • * 2010 , Mark Berresford, That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman (page 143)
  • Apparently the Edison company failed to consider, or chose to ignore, the fact that their records were made using the “hill and dale” vertical-cut recording groove and therefore unplayable on standard (and much cheaper) gramophones
  • (cricket, football, of the delivery of a ball) Impossible to play or to defend against.
  • (video games) That cannot be played, or is so tedious, complicated, buggy, etc. as to discourage or preclude playing.
  • * 1988 , Lazer Tag'' (game review in ''Your Sinclair issue 32, August 1988)
  • Unoriginal, unplayable , overpriced and generally unappealing.

    unplacable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) implacable
  • (Webster 1913)