unplayable
adjEtymology From un- + playable.
› That cannot be played; that is impossible or…
1
Of a musical work That cannot be played, that is too hard too play.
2
Of a video game That cannot be played, or is so tedious, complicated, buggy, etc., as to discourage or preclude playing.
- Unoriginal, unplayable, overpriced and generally unappealing.1988, Lazer Tag (game review in Your Sinclair issue 32, August 1988)
3
Unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all.
Of an audio or visual recording
- 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 […]2010, Mark Berresford, That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman, page 143:
4
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Of a ball Impossible to play or to defend against.
Shuttlecock; player; shuttlecock; player
- Derived terms
- unplayableness, unplayably