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US
/ˌənəbˈteɪnəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʌnɒbtˈeɪnəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɒbtˈeɪnəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not capable of being obtained
untouchable resources buried deep within the earth
timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands
a rare work, today almost inaccessible
How To Use unobtainable In A Sentence
- These branches will afford the unbanked population with affordable minimum bank balance accounts that currently are unobtainable from most commercial banks.
- Twentieth-century bonbons and sweets made in France include numerous regional specialities, traditional or modern, unobtainable anywhere else.
- That would mean that a majority of senators could establish a new rule allowing debate to be shut off with only a simple majority, not the usual and nearly unobtainable sixty-four votes.
- His mobile number returned "unobtainable", his landline number had been reallocated and he had left his bedsit. 'David, my brother for a year'
- The novel is not about a quest to find this rare, priceless artefact, but about the emotional fall-out from suddenly fulfilling a dream, an unobtainable dream which he has used to insulate and protect himself.
- The call is diverted, the number unobtainable, the voice at the end of the line is not the person in charge.
- I would never infantilise myself to reach these ridiculous, unobtainable ideals. Times, Sunday Times
- The recipe shows its age: David is forced to sadly concede that, as clams are unobtainable in this country, mussels or cockles make an acceptable substitute – "but fresh ones, not the lethally vinegared kind in jars". How to cook perfect spaghetti alle vongole
- But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale.
- You can whine all you want about the way men treat you (usually, like dirt), but it's the challenge of obtaining the unobtainable that thrills you.