Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not approachable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unapproachable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
approachable
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Examples
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Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable.
RVABlogs 2008
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Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the intellectual stratosphere as to be unreachable.
RVABlogs 2008
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In a soft voice the doctor spoke his name, squeezing gently the flaccid muscle beneath his hand, as if calling him back from that faraway, inapproachable place.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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In a soft voice the doctor spoke his name, squeezing gently the flaccid muscle beneath his hand, as if calling him back from that faraway, inapproachable place.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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This is because, quite frankly, the 60s marked a high point in the evolution of American society as a whole and set an inapproachable standard across so many aspects of our culture -- music, art, political activism, even the act of defiance itself -- and it did this despite being one of the most turbulent periods in our nation's history.
Chez Pazienza: What a Long, Strange, Thoroughly Obnoxious Trip It's Been 2009
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The salespeople are all frozen in their ironed suits and are very quiet and inapproachable.
Archive 2006-06-01 Ayala Sender 2006
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It's a lot of fun being totally inapproachable though.
mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2004
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Nonetheless, it was Sofie who looked proud and inapproachable, while Huge Hans was running around trying to please her.
NOTHING JANNE TELLER 2000
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Nonetheless, it was Sofie who looked proud and inapproachable, while Huge Hans was running around trying to please her.
NOTHING JANNE TELLER 2000
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Nonetheless, it was Sofie who looked proud and inapproachable, while Huge Hans was running around trying to please her.
NOTHING JANNE TELLER 2000
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