unattainable
IPA: ʌnʌtˈeɪnʌbʌɫ
noun
- Anything that cannot be attained.
adjective
- Impossible to attain or reach; unable to accomplish
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Examples of "unattainable" in Sentences
- Aspiration toward the unattainable is the condition of growth.
- It remained for the smug, "sober judgment" of our day to pronounce it "unattainable" -- unattainable!
- If he threatens that many jobs they'll vote Republican overwhelmingly making the first term unattainable anyway.
- Almost the first he had heard of her was that she was "unattainable" -- yet _they_ had known each other at once ....
- MCCANN: Well, of course all hostage-takers want the unattainable, which is they want -- supposedly this was in Urdu.
- These microtonal intervals permit fine shades of musical expression unattainable by the Western chromatic scale of 12 semitones.
- Besides, the actual was so barren, so narrow, so strangling, that the dream of the unattainable was the only air in which the soul could survive.
- Not one of them stood back and said hang on a minute. many of the ‘targets’ (measures of public satisfaction) were unattainable from the start and as such we cannot sign up for it, thanks but no thanks.
- I reply, dear Wevie, that the soul whose desires are not fixed upon the unattainable is dead even while it liveth, and that I am glad, in the midst of all my comforts, to feel myself still a pilgrim in pursuit of something that is neither house nor lands, nor children, nor health.
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