unachievableadj.
/ˌʌnəˈtʃiːvəbl/, U.S. /ˌənəˈtʃivəb(ə)l/ (un- prefix1 1b.)
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adjective] > unattainable
unachievable1657
unattainable1662
uncome-at-able1694
1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. 484 If..it should be unatchievable, not to be attained to by some.
1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 484 Projects; unachievable even the Preface of them.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 2/1 A reader of less nimble wits who has not caught the trick of suppressing the verbs and leaping to a meaning unachievable by syntax.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1657- and that's all she wrote
- and the like
- another pair of shoes
- another place
- another place, another time
- another planet
- another such
- another such a
- another time
- another time, another place
- another while
- another world
- another-gaines
- anotheres
- anothergaines
- anothergates
- anotherguess
- anotherguise
- anotherkins
- anotherness
- anothers
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- anour
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