unfattenable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fatten +‎ -able

Adjective

unfattenable (comparative more unfattenable, superlative most unfattenable)

  1. That cannot be fattened.
    • 1854, William Graham, The Jordan and the Rhine; or, The East and the West (page 46)
      The cow is a large, raw, high-boned, unfattenable animal, and being regularly wrought in the cultivation of the soil the milk is bad.
    • 1963, Home Economics (volume 9, page 6)
      Of the many explanations that have been put forward one is that the unfattenable person consumes the calories by much greater muscular energy than the fattenable person.
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