Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Unable to be reached; inaccessible.

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  • adjective Unable to be reached; impossible to attain.
  • noun A person or thing that cannot be reached.

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  • adjective inaccessibly located or situated

Etymologies

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From un- + reach + -able.

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Examples

  • And I thought that the house, a supposed place of nurturing, of family and fellowship, was so far away, symbolically unreachable from the woman’s emotional point of view.

    readers respond | wyeth & peterson « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Being unreachable is a conscious choice that T and I have made: we could have cell phones, but we don’t.

    On Being Unreachable 2005

  • Being unreachable is a conscious choice that T and I have made: we could have cell phones, but we don’t.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • “Reach the unreachable is our basic motto where we want to reach the rural village and take technology and internet within the reach of every Nepali,” added Aryal.

    CAN IT Conference Started Today 2010

  • The Purchase, N.Y., beverage giant and partner Waste Management Inc. are in search of the green movement's elusive prey, the so-called unreachable bottle tossed away by people on the go.

    PepsiCo Plans Recycling Initiative 2010

  • “Reach the unreachable is our basic motto where we want to reach the rural village and take technology and internet within the reach of every Nepali,” added Aryal.

    CAN IT Conference Started Today 2010

  • They set in when a goal is identified as unreachable and lead to a decline in motivation.

    Gawker Arun Irizarry 2009

  • So perhaps all these layers of varnish that are "unreachable" below the glazes, could explain some of the color changes?

    Daybreak Blues James Gurney 2009

  • The one who sits with you night after night, listening to your tired rants until they simply end up walking around you as you morph from 'unreachable' to 'not there'.

    Hedge Love. Beware 2008

  • As you can predict, rapidly rising coal prices made the coal that was "unreachable" due to mine flooding so valuable that someone invented a pumping system, that ingeniously ran on coal.

    The Answer is "End Capitalism." (It doesn't matter what the question is) 2008

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