UNAVAILABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unavailable mean? 

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

1. not available or accessible or at hand

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNAVAILABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not available or accessible or at hand

Context example:

his secretary said he was unavailable for comment

Similar:

gone (used up or no longer available)

inaccessible; unobtainable; unprocurable; untouchable (not capable of being obtained)

out of stock (not available for sale or use)

Attribute:

accessibility; availability; availableness; handiness (the quality of being at hand when needed)

Antonym:

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

Derivation:

unavailability (the quality of not being available when needed)

 Context examples 

The package type is not stated or is unavailable.

(Package Type Not Stated, NCI Thesaurus)

That makes their nutrients, carbon and organic matter unavailable for surface recycling by other algae that need the sunlight available in the upper ocean.

(Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans, National Science Foundation)

This oxygen is an extremely valuable resource, but it is chemically bound in the material as oxides in the form of minerals or glass, and is therefore unavailable for immediate use.

(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In frontotemporal dementia and ALS, the proteins become permanently stuck as abnormally dense gels, trapping the RNA and making it unavailable for use.

(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)