1. not suitable or able to be adopted
Usage: often used in contexts of child adoption or animal rescue

Examples

• The shelter worked hard to find homes for dogs previously considered unadoptable.
• Social workers help children who seem unadoptable find permanent families.
• The rescue organization specializes in caring for unadoptable animals.
• Many older pets are wrongly labeled as unadoptable.
• The agency’s goal is to prove that no child is truly unadoptable.
• Special needs animals are often mistakenly viewed as unadoptable.