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unapproachable /ʌnəˈprəʊtʃəb(ə)l /adjective1Not welcoming or friendly: he seems stuffy and unapproachable...- That little black-and-white square photo at the lower right only reminds people of what they think about Gray Davis, which is that, as a person, he's cold, unapproachable and stiff.
- Placebo's love affair with the British music press screeched to a halt in mid-2000 when the NME penned a scathing feature accusing the singer of being arrogant, difficult, unapproachable, obnoxious and deluded.
- In reality - when I'm not mulling these things over in my mind and being paranoid - I don't think I'm unapproachable or unfriendly.
Synonyms aloof, distant, remote, detached, reserved, withdrawn, uncommunicative, guarded, undemonstrative, unresponsive, unforthcoming, unfriendly, unsympathetic, unsociable, cool, cold, icy, chilly, frosty, frigid, stiff, formal, dispassionate informal stand-offish, offish, off 2 archaic (Of a place) remote and inaccessible: some regions were unapproachable to the Romans...- Built over a Thracian settlement and a Byzantine fortress, Tsarevets turned into an unapproachable fortress.
- It takes a hundred men two days to clear a patch of land the size of a soccer field; in Angola, most of the arable land is unapproachable.
- Some Arrowhead homes have already been filled with water, while a few cabins at the end of River Road that sit on the Withlacoochee River are flooded and unapproachable because of the high water levels.
Synonyms inaccessible, out of reach, beyond reach, unreachable, remote, out of the way, isolated, far-flung, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, in the hinterlands informal off the beaten track, in the back of beyond, in the sticks, unget-at-able North American informal jerkwater, in the tall timbers Australian/New Zealand informal Barcoo, beyond the black stump Derivativesunapproachability /ʌnəprəʊtʃəˈbɪlɪti/ noun ...- Centaur's Art might have been a mess, but the questions the script raises about the holiness and unapproachability of art are still worth asking.
- But how dare you use my carefully cultivated unapproachability as an excuse for your bone idleness!
- The greatest danger for the churches is not primarily financial, but rather the anonymity and unapproachability of its functionaries.
unapproachably /ˌʌnəˈprəʊtʃəbli/ adverb ...- Since that may make the book sound unapproachably professorial, here's an excerpt from the writing itself, which as you'll see is thoughtful, personal, angry, inventive and immediate.
- Chapters 4-6 are more mathematically explicit, but not unapproachably so for the lay reader.
- Unless you understand the minutiae of the series, Star Trek games can be unapproachably complex.
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