unstageable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ stageable

Adjective

unstageable (comparative more unstageable, superlative most unstageable)

  1. Impossible to perform on a stage.
    • 2009 July 22, Patrick Healy, “Lincoln Center Festival Makes Way for the Czar”, in New York Times‎:
      “And there are these Russian works such as ‘Boris’ that some have called unstageable because they seem so massive in scale.”
  2. (US, medicine) Of a wound or ulcer, covered with slough or eschar, so that it cannot be assigned to any of the stages described in the National Pressure Ulcer Staging System.
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