unputdownable UK /(ˌ)ʌnpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/US /ˌənˌpʊtˈdaʊnəb(ə)l/ adjective2 •(informal) Of a person, etc.: difficult or impossible to put down (in various senses).Finally, we appeal to all right-minded playgoers. Let them remember that they have got tongues, and that a vigorous, unmistakeable, un-put-downable hiss is, in a theatre, a potent instrument. — 1861 •(informal) Of a book or other written work: so captivating or engrossing that one cannot bear to stop reading it.I found it absolutely (or almost) unputdownable and at the same time as complete a waste of time in a sense as one of [Erle Stanley] Gardner's Perry Mason stories, which I also find unputdownable. — 1947 formsmore unputdownable · most unputdownable