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What is "unplayable"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unplayable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.
▪ By setting them to different scales harmonic progressions which would be unplayable on a single harp are made possible.
▪ Harley's ball was lying a mere few inches from an out-of-bounds fence and was therefore unplayable by a right-handed golfer.
▪ He hooked badly off the second tee, was unplayable and took six.
▪ Pitching it up to the batsman made it, quite often, unplayable.
▪ Then Edgley found an unplayable lie off the tee.
Wiktionary
unplayable

a. 1 (context of an audio or visual recording English) Unable to be played on specified equipment, or at all. 2 (context cricket football of the delivery of a ball English) Impossible to play or to defend against. 3 (context video games English) That cannot be played, or is so tedious, complicated, buggy, etc. as to discourage or preclude playing.

WordNet
unplayable

adj. not capable of or suitable for being played or played on; "the golf ball was in an unplayable lie"; "the field was unplayable"; "some music seems almost unplayable" [ant: playable]

Usage examples of "unplayable".

The tensions in a harp are so tremendous and unrelenting that it becomes unplayable after fifty years and belongs on a dump or in a museum.

Haagedorn, left for an unfortunate moment to face the bowling, succumbed to a really nasty and almost unplayable ball which curled round his feet like a playful kitten and skittled his leg-stump.

I stalked the streets of Branning-at-sea dangling my unplayable knife, gawking at the five story buildings till I saw the buildings with twenty-five stories.