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Inoperable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Not functioning; inoperative.

adj. Unsuitable for a surgical procedure: an inoperable tumor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Incapable of being successfully surgically operated on.

adj. Incapable of correct operation or function; inoperative.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

That cannot be operated on.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not able to perform its normal function

adj. not suitable for surgery

Word Usage

"But Allison Frey, whose aggressive form of thyroid cancer spread to her liver in inoperable patches, says that approach has made her cancer an illness she can manage much like a diabetic manages insulin."

Equivalent

unserviceable

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

operable

Same Context

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