What does unattainable mean?
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.
ChatGPT
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.
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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
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.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
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.
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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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