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untraceable

adjectiveC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,885 of 15,258leans spoken

Untraceable means impossible to follow back to its source. An untraceable call, untraceable funds, effectively untraceable.

Very little is truly untraceable, which is why the word usually means too expensive to trace rather than impossible. Cash is the ordinary example, and it is why serious crime still runs on it.

Definitions of untraceable

  1. 1adjectiveuntraceableImpossible to follow back to its source.C1

    “The kidnappers used an untraceable phone to make their demands.”

untraceable is a quality.

Where it comes from

From un- + traceable.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

untraceable in the wild

  • The location of much of his photography is untraceable after being sold to a Mr.

    Étienne Carjat

  • A 2022 study in FSI Digital Investigations concluded "For now, Monero is untraceable.

    Monero

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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  • trace
  • tracery
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