undeliverable

Won't reach recipient

Undeliverable describes something that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient.

The word appears most often with mail or packages: The letter was returned as undeliverable.

Email systems send undeliverable notices when messages bounce.

By extension, anything that cannot reach its destination—a promise, a service, a product—may be called undeliverable.

postal

returned

Went back again

unclaimed · moved · relocated · deceased · missent · misdirected · nixie

digital

bounced

Returned after hitting surface

blacklisted · unsubscribed · quarantined

logistics

shipment

Goods being transported

freight · consignment · courier · carrier · dispatch · tracking · rerouted · held · lost · delayed

communication

unreachable

Cannot be accessed

unanswered · unacknowledged · unresponsive · blocked · rejected · returned · incommunicado

promise

unfulfilled

Not brought to completion

unrealized · defaulted · unkept · incomplete · abandoned · rescinded · voided · null · impossible · impracticable

Categories
Opposites
delivery status

undeliverabledeliverable

Required project result

delivered · receivable · sent · dispatched · transmitted

deliverability status

undeliverabledeliverable

Required project result

delivered · received · accepted · routable · transmittable

Phrases
Family

deliver, delivery, delivered, delivering, delivers, deliverer, deliverance, undelivered, redeliver

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G