unobtainable
/ʌnəbˈteɪnəb(ə)l/
US pronunciation
American sound/ʌnəbˈteɪnəb(ə)l/
ʌnəbˈteɪnəbəl
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ʌnəb - ˈteɪnəbəl -> unobtainable
Myanmar meaning
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unobtainable /ʌnǝb'teÇnǝbl / adj
မရနိုင်သော။ Unfortunately, it is unobtainable in most shops. ❍ (Brit ) I keep getting the unobtainable tone (ie on the telephone).
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- ‘And when they are, they're entirely unobtainable - and it's hard to convince a man that you're the girl of his dreams while tearing his ticket…’
- ‘Some things are just plain unobtainable: it's impossible, for example, to find blue fountain pen ink in the standard cartridges around here.’
- ‘The call is diverted, the number unobtainable, the voice at the end of the line is not the person in charge.’
- ‘They were so sexy and unobtainable that leading royals and The Beatles begged for them.’
- ‘It's an unobtainable dream world that some feel safe in and like to escape to.’
- ‘We know that the targets are challenging but we have no reason to think that they are unobtainable.’
- ‘For want of insights and data often unobtainable from the corporate media, the public opinion vital to US democracy has trouble remaining vigorous and informed.’
- ‘He travelled 400 miles from Tokyo carrying rations for seven meals - food is almost unobtainable in Japan - a black umbrella, and a typewriter.’
- ‘His website is still up and running, but his telephone number is unobtainable.’
- ‘It was published in 1937 so is probably unobtainable now (though you could try abebooks), but it was a marvellous autobiography by a man who edited pulp magazines.’
- ‘My mission was to explain this with baffling technical jargon and pie charts - mmmm, pies - while Stella's role was to talk money and promise unobtainable IT related happiness.’
- ‘Twentieth-century bonbons and sweets made in France include numerous skilfully marketed regional specialities, traditional or modern, unobtainable anywhere else.’
- ‘For many young people who feel trapped on an endless treadmill of dreary short-term jobs, interspersed with spells of unemployment, this seems like an increasingly unobtainable dream.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘They grow well enough in several states but are unobtainable in Washington.’
- ‘But there seems no reason why this scheme should not work and provide an otherwise unobtainable massive injection of resources for a financially hard-hit National Health Service.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Then I found their phone number was unobtainable and they didn't return my emails and now my fears have been confirmed.’
- ‘Tea has stayed with me as a drug of choice where others have palled or become unobtainable.’
- ‘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.’
Synonyms
unavailable, out of stock, not for sale, out of commission, off limits, exclusive, inaccessible, unattainable, absurd, aloof, away, beyond, beyond reach, contrary to reason, cureless, distant, elusive, far, far-off, faraway, futile, hardly possible, hopeless, hundred-to-one, impassable, impervious, impossible, impracticable, impractical, inapproachable, inconceivable, inexecutable, infeasible, insurmountable, irrealizable, irreparable, no-go, no-way, no-win, not a prayer, not at hand, out of reach, out of the question, out of the way, out-of-the-way, preposterous, remote, too much, unachievable, unapproachable, uncorrectable, unfeasible, ungettable, unimaginable, unreachable, unrealizable, unreasonable, unrecoverable, unthinkable, unworkable, useless, visionary, way out
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