Definitions for unattainable
unattain·able

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unachievable, unattainable, undoable, unrealizableadjective

   impossible to achieve

   "an unattainable goal"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. unattainableadjective

   Impossible to attain or reach; inaccessible, unobtainable or unapproachable; unable to accomplish; beyond limit.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Unattainable

   un-a-tān′a-bl, adj. beyond one's reach.—n. Unattain′ableness.—adv. Unattain′ably.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of unattainable in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of unattainable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of unattainable in a Sentence

1. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918):

   The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

2. Mahabharata:

   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.

3. Adamo Macri:

   You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

4. William Bolitho:

   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.

5. Janine Stichter:

   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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=unattainable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unattainable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=unattainable
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=unattainable