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Meanings of unattainable in English

Impossible to achieve.

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Usage of unattainable in English
1
Not marrying him, for example, apparently keeping herself unattainable, by his lights.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
2
These goals are unattainable with NASA's current budget, the review team concluded.
Wired
3
But Basil could not see it-helonged for the unattainable, the ideal.
The Coquette's Victim / Everyday Life Library No. 1
4
These are the most exclusive and unattainable of all the court entertainments.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
5
In Russia there are now two unattainable heights: Mount Elborus and myself.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
6
Is the ideal of an absolutely self- contained Ireland attainable or unattainable?
The Irish Times
7
In the domestic detail there may be novelty, but variety is unattainable.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
8
Britain is a tiny, perhaps unattainable, outline in the top left-hand corner.
The Guardian
9
But they were prohibitively expensive to run, a beautiful but unattainable ideal.
The Guardian
10
The impossible had become possible, the unattainable was about to be attained.
The Scouts of the Valley
11
Though the casts were unattainable, the affectionate reply gave Agassiz keen pleasure.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
12
She would be no child to cry for the moon, the unattainable.
Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
13
Will staying in the US enable you to pursue previously unattainable goals?
The Guardian
14
On the contrary he regarded her with tender adoration as something unattainable.
Father Sergius
15
Now the Peripatetics think that freedom from emotion is unattainable by men.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
16
Jay-Z recently endorsed another man who attained the unattainable -Barack Obama.
The Guardian
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United States of America
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