unalertable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ alertable

Adjective

unalertable (comparative more unalertable, superlative most unalertable)

  1. Not alertable; unresponsive to attempts to alert.
    • 1972, Rohit Mehta, From Mind to Super-mind: A Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, page 206:
      It would, if the motivating factors for such perception of the unalertable nature of facts are either self-justification or self-pity.
    • 1978, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report - Volume 950, page dlxxv:
      Unfortunately, the Secretary of State was unalertable.
    • 1994, AnnMari Jansson, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics, page 41:
      Those who are unalertable will likely continue to consider externalities a minor problem, believe in perpetual motion machines, 100% recycling, and eternal growth, and otherwise act as if the laws of nature did not exist (Beckerman 1992).

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