adjective
- 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.