Inaccessible
[ɪnək'sesɪb(ə)l] or [,ɪnæk'sɛsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all .
(adj.) not capable of being obtained; 'a rare work, today almost inaccessible'; 'timber is virtually unobtainable in the islands'; 'untouchable resources buried deep within the earth' .
Checked by Cecily--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc.
Editor: Rodney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unapproachable, not to be reached.[2]. Unattainable.
Editor: Sheldon
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACCESSIBLE]
Checker: Phelps
Definition
adj. not to be reached obtained or approached.—ns. Inaccess′ibility Inaccess′ibleness.—adv. Inaccess′ibly.
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Examples
- He was so beautiful and inaccessible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was perfectly inaccessible, even to such generosity as this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- With Hegel the necessity of finding some working concrete counterpart of the inaccessible Absolute took an institutional, rather than symbolic, form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She knew that Mr. Gryce was of the small chary type most inaccessible to impulses and emotions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The sand hills, some of them almost inaccessible to foot-passengers, were surveyed off and mapped into fifty vara lots--a vara being a Spanish yard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Have you ever heard of any projector or inventor who failed to find it all but inaccessible, and whom it did not discourage and ill-treat? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He is completely immersed in large public questions, and is rather inaccessible to all ordinary emotions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is utterly inaccessible, except in one place, where a bridle-path winds upward among the solid rocks to the old portcullis. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For him no method of copying was sufficiently tedious and no rare book sufficiently inaccessible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Two well-lighted rooms on the second floor, so placed as to be inaccessible to visitors, were chosen for the workshops. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Here and there, towers were perched high up on acclivities which seemed almost inaccessible. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- From these premises, and one or two others, inaccessible to any but myself, I could draw but one inference. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Enough that I have found it out--and the finding has caused that trouble and anxiety which made me so inaccessible to you all through to-day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a certain hostility, a hidden ultimate reserve in him, cold and inaccessible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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