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Definitions for unattainable
unattain·able
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Princeton's WordNet
unachievable, unattainable, undoable, unrealizableadjective
impossible to achieve
"an unattainable goal"
Wiktionary
unattainableadjective
Impossible to attain or reach; inaccessible, unobtainable or unapproachable; unable to accomplish; beyond limit.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Unattainableadjective
Not to be gained or obtained; being out of reach.
Praise and prayer are God’s due worship; which are unattainable by our discourse, simply considered, without the benefit of divine revelation. John Dryden, Religio Laici.
I do not expect that men should be perfectly kept from error; that is more than human nature can, by any means, be advanced to: I aim at no such unattainable privilege; I only speak of what they should do. John Locke.
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unattainable
Unattainable refers to something that cannot be achieved, accomplished, or obtained. This could be due to various reasons such as practical impossibilities, physical limits, lack of required resources, or constraints imposed by laws, rules, or circumstances.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Unattainable
un-a-tān′a-bl, adj. beyond one's reach.—n. Unattain′ableness.—adv. Unattain′ably.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of unattainable in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of unattainable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of unattainable in a Sentence
Aerie hit it right at a time when people were tiring of what Victoria's Secret and PINK were portraying as overtly sexy and really unattainable beauty standards.
I think happy is a place that you go to visit, and I think that for me, striving to be a hundred percent happy all the time is just unattainable. It’s like sometimes you have to look in the mirror and be like, ‘I’m having a great day today.’ You know what I mean? And you have to give yourself that pep talk. Then some days you’re like, ‘No, I feel like absolute trash right now.’ But I think that the point is like you never know what’s really happening and life is complex and so nobody’s one shade of anything. There’s a spectrum of light and dark and happy and sad and it’s constantly moving.
There is plenty to make fun of in pop culture without bringing people's bodies into it, i do not want to use my comedy to contribute to a culture of unattainable perfectionism and intolerance towards difference.
Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.
Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can.
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- nedostupný, nedosažitelnýCzech
- UopnåligDanish
- unerreichbarGerman
- ανέφικτοςGreek
- incapturableSpanish
- غیرقابل دسترس استPersian
- saavuttamatonFinnish
- inaccessibleFrench
- elérhetetlenHungarian
- irraggiungibileItalian
- בלתי ניתן להשגהHebrew
- inconprehensibiliaLatin
- uoppnåeligNorwegian
- irealizabilRomanian
- недостижимый, недоступныйRussian
- ouppnåeligSwedish
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