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INADMISSIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inadmissible mean?
• INADMISSIBLE (adjective)
The adjective INADMISSIBLE has 1 sense:
1. not deserving to be admitted
Familiarity information: INADMISSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not deserving to be admitted
Context example:
inadmissible evidence
Similar:
impermissible (not allowable)
Attribute:
admissibility (acceptability by virtue of being admissible)
Antonym:
admissible (deserving to be admitted)
Derivation:
inadmissibility (unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible)
Context examples
No, an arrest is inadmissible.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For that matter, so great a gap separates these ape-men from the primitive animals which have survived upon this plateau, that it is inadmissible to think that they could have developed where we find them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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