unclassifiable
adjective
un·clas·si·fi·able
ˌən-ˌkla-sə-ˈfī-ə-bəl 
: unable to be classified : not classifiable
… unclassifiable writers like Rudyard Kipling …—
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George Stade… a collection of essays, magazine pieces and unclassifiable musings …—Kate Jennings
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unclassifiableness
noun
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The crowd is appropriately reverent on this religious holy day as percussionist/composer Ches Smith begins, leading his unclassifiable ensemble Laugh Ash through a maze of scrambled electronics, free-jazz vibraphone, and orchestrations that shift from unnerving to sweet.
—Ryan Reed, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
Who better to trade banter about gaping vaginas, the unclassifiable dampness of one’s second-trimester nether regions, the lack-of-lactation blues, and uncontrollable bowel movements in the O.R.?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
Best director honors went to Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias for Pepe, an unclassifiable mash-up of documentary and fiction about a hippo brought to Colombia by drug king Pablo Escobar.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024
Shoegaze fueled several of the most exciting albums in indie rock, slipped seamlessly into disparate electronic subgenres, definitively shed its associations with white middle-class Brits, and glowed at the red-hot core of some of the year’s most thrillingly unclassifiable records.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
Supernova is an unclassifiable Spanish pop record from—and for—the future.
—Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
The result is a book that is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.
—The New York Times Books Staff, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
And so his nearly unclassifiable and inexhaustible solo act was of a piece with his literary calling.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
Per logline, the sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
Ryan Reed, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
Who better to trade banter about gaping vaginas, the unclassifiable dampness of one’s second-trimester nether regions, the lack-of-lactation blues, and uncontrollable bowel movements in the O.R.?
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
Best director honors went to Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias for Pepe, an unclassifiable mash-up of documentary and fiction about a hippo brought to Colombia by drug king Pablo Escobar.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2024
Shoegaze fueled several of the most exciting albums in indie rock, slipped seamlessly into disparate electronic subgenres, definitively shed its associations with white middle-class Brits, and glowed at the red-hot core of some of the year’s most thrillingly unclassifiable records.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
Supernova is an unclassifiable Spanish pop record from—and for—the future.
—Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023
The result is a book that is riveting and darkly funny and, in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.
—The New York Times Books Staff, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
And so his nearly unclassifiable and inexhaustible solo act was of a piece with his literary calling.
—Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
Per logline, the sixth season of Black Mirror is the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
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“Unclassifiable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unclassifiable. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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