UNATTAINABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unattainable mean? 

• UNATTAINABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNATTAINABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to achieve

  Familiarity information: UNATTAINABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNATTAINABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to achieve

Synonyms:

unachievable; unattainable; undoable; unrealizable

Context example:

an unattainable goal

Similar:

impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)

Derivation:

unattainableness (the state of being unattainable)

 Context examples 

His duties would be established, but the wife who was to share, and animate, and reward those duties, might yet be unattainable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But the first boy seems to me a mighty creature, dwelling afar off, whose giddy height is unattainable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)