Unraisable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Not able to be lifted or elevated physically ; impossible to provoke or elicit a response or reaction
2. Impossible to raise or lift from a position or state ; incapable of being stirred emotionally or mentally to action
3. Unable to be moved upward or lifted ; resistant to being aroused, awakened, or stimulated in any manner

Etymology: Its core is the verb "raise," which is a causative of "rise": where "rise" means to go up by itself, "raise" means to make something go up. English gained the causative from Old Norse "reisa," and it displaced the older Old English "ræran" in everyday use. Adding the suffix "-able," which comes from Latin through Old French and means "capable of being," gave a sense of "capable of being lifted." The prefix "un-" is native English and negates it, so the literal sense is "not able to be lifted." The figurative sense, "resistant to being awakened or stimulated," builds on the same image: something that cannot be brought up or roused. The word is a transparent formation from common parts, so its meaning follows directly from them, and it is far less common than the adjective "unraised" or the plain negative "impossible to lift."

Synonyms: irrecoverable, unliftable, unrecoverable, unachievable, impossible to raise

Antonyms: raisable, liftable, achievable, recoverable, possible to raise