inaccessibleadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌɪnəkˈsɛsᵻbl/,

/ˌɪnakˈsɛsᵻbl/, U.S.

/ˌɪnækˈsɛsəb(ə)l/,

/ˌɪnəkˈsɛsəb(ə)l/

Forms:

α. late Middle English inaccessyble, late Middle English– inaccessible.

β. 1500s–1600s inaccessable.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French inaccessible; Latin inaccessibilis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French inaccessible (French inaccessible ) that cannot be attained by human ability or effort, (of a place) that cannot be physically entered or accessed (both late 14th cent.), (of a person) unapproachable (1580), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin inaccessibilis (Vulgate) < in- in- prefix⁴ + accessibilis accessible adj. Compare later unaccessible adj.Compare Spanish inaccesible (1490 as inaccessible ), Italian inaccessibile (a1364). Specific forms. With the β. forms compare -able suffix, and also post-classical Latin inaccessabilis (15th cent. in a British source). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin inaccessabilia , neuter plural (4th cent.). Specific senses. In the specific use in mathematics (see sense A. 4) after French inaccessible (1934 in this sense: W. Sierpiński Hypothèse du continu v. 152). In sense A. 3 originally translating ancient Greek ἄαπτος.

A. adj.

a. Of a physical or spiritual place: that cannot be reached, entered, or accessed; that cannot be scaled or penetrated; that does not give access to someone or something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible

outc1425

inaccessible?a1475

out-way1532

deviate1575

unaccessible1596

reachless1597

devious1599

wandering1600

untouchable1622

outlying1651

back1683

no-nationa1756

out-of-the-way1756

outlandish1792

eccentric1800

outworld1808

out-by1816

outside1847

off-lying1859

unget-at-able1862

far-out1887

far-back1900

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adjective] > affording access > accessible > inaccessible

inaccessible?a1475

unwinnablec1540

improachable?a1560

inaccesse?1567

unapproachable1574

unreachablea1586

unaccessible1596

dreich1597

accessless?1614

approachless1647

wind-bound1647

uncome-at-able1694

inapproachable1828

unget-at-able1862

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 379 That place..is so inaccessible thro myres and waters.

?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. c.iii He may shortly..entre y^e inaccessible & infinite light of heuyn where he may in y^e presence of y^e soueragne godhed so pray for vs.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 281 The desperate danger..in climing the inaccessible mountaine.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 212 Love lyeth secretly closed vp within the closet of the heart, which is inaccessible to any mortall eye.

1705 M. Sylvester Christian Hope 63 Christ in our Nature is in Heaven, and so the Throne of Majesty and Mercy remain no longer inaccessible.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 420 The harbour..[is] inaccessible allmost 6 months in the year.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xvii. 335 Its inaccessible acropolis defied them.

1867 Laws of La Crosse 6 Should the ball lodge in any spot inaccessible to the ‘crosse’ it may be taken out by the hand and immediately placed on the ‘crosse’.

1981 A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Livestock & Poultry viii. 203/2 Oats must be kept dry and inaccessible to rats and mice.

2014 Observer 9 Feb. 8/5 Those inaccessible, remote outposts suited cloistered religious orders needing a retreat from the world.

b. Of a resource, an activity, etc.: not able to be acquired, made use of, or received; unavailable to a particular class or person.

ΚΠ

?1551 A. Bacon tr. B. Ochino 14 Serm. viii. sig. f.iii^v The vngodly presuming without faieth, haue a wil to perce, to the inaccessible counsaile of God.

1688 True Spirit of Popery 44 Rendred all Arts and Trades almost inaccessible to the Protestants, by the difficulties of arriving to the Mastership of them.

1791 J. Bentham Draught of Code in Wks. (1843) IV. 403 Out of extortion and peculation grow inaccessible justice and paralytic laws.

1829 Monthly Repository Jan. 46 They are so expensive, as to be inaccessible as books for general education.

1985 J. S. Legge Abortion Policy v. 100 The cost of the service made the procedure inaccessible to many young and low-income women.

2009 P. Castle & S. Buckler How to be Successful Teacher ix. 144 Such measurement techniques are largely inaccessible to teachers.

c. Originally U.S. Of a place, facility, service, etc.: that cannot be conveniently used or accessed by people with disabilities; not designed or adapted to meet the needs of disabled people.

ΚΠ

1959 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. x33/3 At all service areas and restaurants, a person unable to get out of a wheelchair would find rest rooms to be inaccessible because of the narrowness of their doors.

1979 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 11 Apr. 2/1 President Carter..urged Americans to do away with all barriers to the handicapped—from non-braille menus to inaccessible buses.

2006 S. Linton My Body Politic iv. 60 There were courses I couldn't take and evening events I couldn't attend because they were held in inaccessible buildings.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Sept. For blind, learning disabled or epileptic people, autoplaying videos and adverts make many websites inaccessible.

a. Of a person: that is impossible to come into close or personal relations with; not open to advances, unapproachable; not susceptible to an influence.

ΚΠ

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ciiiv The Lord our God, a spiritual..substance, incomprehensible, immensurable, & inaccessible.

1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale ii. iv. 217 The great seueritie of a cruell, couetous, and inaccessible prince.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxiv. 358 This savage hero was not inaccessible to pity.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 339 The judges..shall be inaccessible to entreaties.

1934 P. Hamilton Plains of Cement xxi. 182 Was ever anyone more complacent, purblind, and inaccessible?

2014 Miami Student (Nexis) 28 Oct. 1 He's very rarely here, except for maybe a closed fundraiser... He's a very inaccessible representative.

b. Of a field of knowledge, a style, etc.: not able to be (readily) understood or appreciated.

ΚΠ

1670 J. Evelyn tr. Moral Pract. Jesuites 80 Suarez and Vasquez..in..the vigour of their wit, believed, and with reason, that they could penetrate through all, and that nothing could be inaccessible to them.

1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. 11 A sincere endeavour to free a science..from those subtilties, obscurities, and paradoxes, which render it inaccessible to most Men.

1822 C. Humphreys Compend. Common Law in Force in Kentucky 111 Coke's works, though replete with law learning, are almost inaccessible to any but those who are already familiar with the subject.

1921 A. Cohen Babylonian Talmūd Pref. p. v To most readers ‘Talmūd’ is merely a name for a branch of ancient literature remote, esoteric and inaccessible.

1963 Slavic Rev. 22 168 Spulber's text does not diverge from the long tradition in economics of ‘an inaccessible style for an inaccessible subject.’

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Aug. d6/1 Though the rawness of Brutalism remains inaccessible to many, interest is growing.

c. Of an emotion, a concept, etc.: that is impossible to apprehend or get in touch with. Also with to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adjective]

uncouthc897

unnimlyc1225

incomprehensiblea1340

unsearchablec1384

unknowable?c1400

investigablea1425

uncomprehensiblea1425

unthinkablec1445

imperscrutablec1450

inscrutablec1450

inopinable?a1475

incomprenable1502

unspectable?1504

incogitablec1522

uncogitable1529

impenetrable1531

inimaginable1534

inexplicable1555

unsensible1555

unscrutable1562

unfashionable1563

unpenetrable1581

unexcogitable1592

ineffable1598

inexcogitable1599

indivinable1603

ininvestigable1604

incapable1605

searchless?1606

uncomprehensive1609

unconceivable1611

undivinable1611

unimaginable1611

unexplicable1615

unintelligible1616

unapprehensible?1617

unfathomable1617

imprehensible1622

ununderstandablea1631

indeprehensible1633

indiscernible1635

inscrute1639

inapprehensiblea1641

indiscoverable1640

unexaminable1641

impervestigable1643

fathomless1645

inconceivable1646

indeterminable1646

inexplorable1646

insearchable1647

incomprehended1652

comprehendlessa1654

incomprehensive1656

untraceable1661

uninvestigablea1677

unintelligent1683

incognoscible1691

thought-transcendinga1711

uncognizable1720

acataleptic1727

undescriptive1744

elusive1751

impalpable1781

inaccessible1796

unconjecturable1806

uncognoscible1821

unascertainable1827

unfixable1831

unguessable1832

unrealizable1832

unsurveyable1833

hard-shelled1835

unintellective1837

undeemed1845

graspless1849

unconjectured1850

incognizable1852

ungraspable1853

unreadable1853

super-cerebral1854

elusory1856

trans-conscious1865

intangible1880

uncatchable1892

unspelt1892

unplumbable1895

unknowledgeable1920

indiscutable1933

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility

unfeelingc1000

mis-feelinga1382

stonishc1450

unpainfulc1450

obtuse1509

sprightlessa1522

insensate1553

senseless1560

soulless1568

dull-esprited1591

impassible1592

bluntie1598

impenetrable1600

stockish1600

stolidc1600

incapable1601

stupid1605

tasteless1605

unsensitive1610

unexalted1611

insensible1617

unsensible1619

languid1622

immovable1639

dead-hearted1642

sterile1642

resupine1643

unaffectionate1645

iron-bound1648

resentlessa1649

torpid1656

torpulent1657

impassive1699

unreceptive1722

hebete1743

apathetic1744

stubbed1744

gustless1766

unresponsive1768

unsusceptible1779

tideless-blooded1786

unaffectioned1788

inaccessible1796

hebetudinous1820

unimpressible1828

insensitive1834

apathetical1835

non-sensitive1836

blunt-hearted1845

irreceptive1846

unreceptant1846

unimpressionable1847

anaesthetic1860

insentient1860

hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862

unsqueamish1893

tone-deaf1894

unget-at-able1897

facty1901

zombie1937

pegamoid1957

1796 F. A. Nitsch Gen. View Kant's Princ. conc. Man 59 Why..should Metaphysics, or that science which treats of existencies inaccessible to the senses..be incapable of equal evidence?

1852 Liberator (Boston) 3 Dec. 1/1 Sooner than accept moral or spiritual bondage of any sort, it were better that we fall back upon the opposite extreme of an inaccessible pride.

1880 Index 24 June 310/1 Oh, my brother, whom my soul reveres With that great love which answers love alone, Tender and true, though dwelling far apart In inaccessible thoughts.

1987 S. T. Dukes Chinese Hand Anal. xx. 318 Apperception is an amorphous, multi-level awareness existing but inaccessible to ordinary consciousness.

2016 A. Webber Breakthrough Moments in Arts-based Psychotherapy (2017) 28 In recalling this dream about the ‘restaurant’, she had woken deep emotions and previously inaccessible grief.

†3. Not able to be matched in power, status, etc.; unapproachably high; invincible. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > not overcome or overwhelmed > that cannot be

insuperablec1340

unvanquishablea1382

unexpugnable1382

invincible1482

unsuperable1526

inexpugnablea1535

unvincible1554

impugnable1570

conquerless1595

invictivea1607

inaccessible?1611

unsubduable1611

insuppressivea1616

inexsuperable1623

undefeatablea1640

unconquerable1642

irreducible1858

tower-proof1858

insubduable1866

uncrushable1873

unwinnable1972

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 13 Curbe your tongue in time, lest all the Gods..Too few be, and too weake to helpe, thy punisht insolence, When my inaccessible hands [Gk. ἀάπτους χεῖρας], shall fall on thee.

1841 R. W. Emerson Turner in Ess. (1904) 43/2 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish.

1905 R. Le Gallienne tr. Hafez Odes 36 He laughs at rivals such as ye Who think to match his inaccessible fame.

4. Mathematics. Of an infinite (and typically uncountable) cardinal number (cf. uncountable adj. 2a): that cannot be expressed as a combination of smaller cardinal numbers using the basic operations of cardinal arithmetic; esp. strongly inaccessible (see note).A weakly inaccessible cardinal number κ cannot be expressed as the sum of fewer than κ cardinal numbers less than itself, and is neither zero nor a successor of another cardinal number. A strongly inaccessible cardinal number additionally has the property that, where α is another cardinal number, 2^α < κ whenever α < κ.

ΚΠ

1935 Math. Gaz. 19 146 Every inaccessible aleph is beyond 2^א₀.

1943 Ann. Math. 44 326 We single out among the weakly inaccessible numbers a more special class: the so called strongly inaccessible numbers.

2016 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 81 789 Such cardinals are inaccessible and much more.

B. n.

1. A person who or thing which is inaccessible. Chiefly in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > a remote or inaccessible place

out-place1530

inaccessibilities1651

inaccessible1792

the back of beyond1816

hardscrabble1821

the back of Godspeed1827

out-of-the-way1971

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > coming into the presence of or contact with > quality of being accessible > quality of being inaccessible > that which is

inaccessible1792

1792 Golden Days we now Possess (single sheet) Such promontories sure, may be styl'd Inaccessibles, As our Small-Cloaths, by Prudes, are pronounc'd Inexpressibles.

1812 M. Keatinge (title) Eidometrian Local, Victorial, and Military, for Inaccessibles.

1839 Liberator (Boston) 5 July 2/3 Lolling on the sofas of the Otises, the Searses and the what-not inaccessibles of Beacon Street.

1916 Green Bk. Mag. Dec. 971/1 The glamour of the inaccessible is gone; castles in the air have come to earth, and are ready to be moved into.

1969 Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times 14 Oct. If these Republican candidates become members of the school board, will they continue to be the ‘inaccessibles’?

2012 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 9 Dec. 4 f Life in this setting is easy, except for the almost daily struggle with an array of ‘inaccessibles’.

2. Mathematics. An inaccessible cardinal number; esp. one that is strongly inaccessible. See sense A. 4.

ΚΠ

1965 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 30 95 Letting X be the family of accessible cardinals and ω = θ₀, θ₁, . . . the sequence of inaccessibles, M (X) contains every cardinal which is not a ρ₀ number in Mahlo's sense.

2001 Israel Jrnl. Math. 20 229 Let α be an inaccessible.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	inaccessible
释义	inaccessibleadj.n. Brit. /ˌɪnəkˈsɛsᵻbl/, /ˌɪnakˈsɛsᵻbl/, U.S. /ˌɪnækˈsɛsəb(ə)l/, /ˌɪnəkˈsɛsəb(ə)l/ Forms: α. late Middle English inaccessyble, late Middle English– inaccessible. β. 1500s–1600s inaccessable. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French inaccessible; Latin inaccessibilis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French inaccessible (French inaccessible ) that cannot be attained by human ability or effort, (of a place) that cannot be physically entered or accessed (both late 14th cent.), (of a person) unapproachable (1580), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin inaccessibilis (Vulgate) < in- in- prefix⁴ + accessibilis accessible adj. Compare later unaccessible adj.Compare Spanish inaccesible (1490 as inaccessible ), Italian inaccessibile (a1364). Specific forms. With the β. forms compare -able suffix, and also post-classical Latin inaccessabilis (15th cent. in a British source). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin inaccessabilia , neuter plural (4th cent.). Specific senses. In the specific use in mathematics (see sense A. 4) after French inaccessible (1934 in this sense: W. Sierpiński Hypothèse du continu v. 152). In sense A. 3 originally translating ancient Greek ἄαπτος. A. adj. 1. a. Of a physical or spiritual place: that cannot be reached, entered, or accessed; that cannot be scaled or penetrated; that does not give access to someone or something. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] > remote or inaccessible outc1425 inaccessible?a1475 out-way1532 deviate1575 unaccessible1596 reachless1597 devious1599 wandering1600 untouchable1622 outlying1651 back1683 no-nationa1756 out-of-the-way1756 outlandish1792 eccentric1800 outworld1808 out-by1816 outside1847 off-lying1859 unget-at-able1862 far-out1887 far-back1900 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [adjective] > affording access > accessible > inaccessible inaccessible?a1475 unwinnablec1540 improachable?a1560 inaccesse?1567 unapproachable1574 unreachablea1586 unaccessible1596 dreich1597 accessless?1614 approachless1647 wind-bound1647 uncome-at-able1694 inapproachable1828 unget-at-able1862 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 379 That place..is so inaccessible thro myres and waters. ?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. c.iii He may shortly..entre y^e inaccessible & infinite light of heuyn where he may in y^e presence of y^e soueragne godhed so pray for vs. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 281 The desperate danger..in climing the inaccessible mountaine. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) v. 212 Love lyeth secretly closed vp within the closet of the heart, which is inaccessible to any mortall eye. 1705 M. Sylvester Christian Hope 63 Christ in our Nature is in Heaven, and so the Throne of Majesty and Mercy remain no longer inaccessible. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 420 The harbour..[is] inaccessible allmost 6 months in the year. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xvii. 335 Its inaccessible acropolis defied them. 1867 Laws of La Crosse 6 Should the ball lodge in any spot inaccessible to the ‘crosse’ it may be taken out by the hand and immediately placed on the ‘crosse’. 1981 A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Livestock & Poultry viii. 203/2 Oats must be kept dry and inaccessible to rats and mice. 2014 Observer 9 Feb. 8/5 Those inaccessible, remote outposts suited cloistered religious orders needing a retreat from the world. b. Of a resource, an activity, etc.: not able to be acquired, made use of, or received; unavailable to a particular class or person. ΚΠ ?1551 A. Bacon tr. B. Ochino 14 Serm. viii. sig. f.iii^v The vngodly presuming without faieth, haue a wil to perce, to the inaccessible counsaile of God. 1688 True Spirit of Popery 44 Rendred all Arts and Trades almost inaccessible to the Protestants, by the difficulties of arriving to the Mastership of them. 1791 J. Bentham Draught of Code in Wks. (1843) IV. 403 Out of extortion and peculation grow inaccessible justice and paralytic laws. 1829 Monthly Repository Jan. 46 They are so expensive, as to be inaccessible as books for general education. 1985 J. S. Legge Abortion Policy v. 100 The cost of the service made the procedure inaccessible to many young and low-income women. 2009 P. Castle & S. Buckler How to be Successful Teacher ix. 144 Such measurement techniques are largely inaccessible to teachers. c. Originally U.S. Of a place, facility, service, etc.: that cannot be conveniently used or accessed by people with disabilities; not designed or adapted to meet the needs of disabled people. ΚΠ 1959 N.Y. Times 8 Nov. x33/3 At all service areas and restaurants, a person unable to get out of a wheelchair would find rest rooms to be inaccessible because of the narrowness of their doors. 1979 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 11 Apr. 2/1 President Carter..urged Americans to do away with all barriers to the handicapped—from non-braille menus to inaccessible buses. 2006 S. Linton My Body Politic iv. 60 There were courses I couldn't take and evening events I couldn't attend because they were held in inaccessible buildings. 2015 Guardian (Nexis) 30 Sept. For blind, learning disabled or epileptic people, autoplaying videos and adverts make many websites inaccessible. 2. a. Of a person: that is impossible to come into close or personal relations with; not open to advances, unapproachable; not susceptible to an influence. ΚΠ 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ciiiv The Lord our God, a spiritual..substance, incomprehensible, immensurable, & inaccessible. 1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale ii. iv. 217 The great seueritie of a cruell, couetous, and inaccessible prince. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxiv. 358 This savage hero was not inaccessible to pity. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 339 The judges..shall be inaccessible to entreaties. 1934 P. Hamilton Plains of Cement xxi. 182 Was ever anyone more complacent, purblind, and inaccessible? 2014 Miami Student (Nexis) 28 Oct. 1 He's very rarely here, except for maybe a closed fundraiser... He's a very inaccessible representative. b. Of a field of knowledge, a style, etc.: not able to be (readily) understood or appreciated. ΚΠ 1670 J. Evelyn tr. Moral Pract. Jesuites 80 Suarez and Vasquez..in..the vigour of their wit, believed, and with reason, that they could penetrate through all, and that nothing could be inaccessible to them. 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. 11 A sincere endeavour to free a science..from those subtilties, obscurities, and paradoxes, which render it inaccessible to most Men. 1822 C. Humphreys Compend. Common Law in Force in Kentucky 111 Coke's works, though replete with law learning, are almost inaccessible to any but those who are already familiar with the subject. 1921 A. Cohen Babylonian Talmūd Pref. p. v To most readers ‘Talmūd’ is merely a name for a branch of ancient literature remote, esoteric and inaccessible. 1963 Slavic Rev. 22 168 Spulber's text does not diverge from the long tradition in economics of ‘an inaccessible style for an inaccessible subject.’ 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Aug. d6/1 Though the rawness of Brutalism remains inaccessible to many, interest is growing. c. Of an emotion, a concept, etc.: that is impossible to apprehend or get in touch with. Also with to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adjective] uncouthc897 unnimlyc1225 incomprehensiblea1340 unsearchablec1384 unknowable?c1400 investigablea1425 uncomprehensiblea1425 unthinkablec1445 imperscrutablec1450 inscrutablec1450 inopinable?a1475 incomprenable1502 unspectable?1504 incogitablec1522 uncogitable1529 impenetrable1531 inimaginable1534 inexplicable1555 unsensible1555 unscrutable1562 unfashionable1563 unpenetrable1581 unexcogitable1592 ineffable1598 inexcogitable1599 indivinable1603 ininvestigable1604 incapable1605 searchless?1606 uncomprehensive1609 unconceivable1611 undivinable1611 unimaginable1611 unexplicable1615 unintelligible1616 unapprehensible?1617 unfathomable1617 imprehensible1622 ununderstandablea1631 indeprehensible1633 indiscernible1635 inscrute1639 inapprehensiblea1641 indiscoverable1640 unexaminable1641 impervestigable1643 fathomless1645 inconceivable1646 indeterminable1646 inexplorable1646 insearchable1647 incomprehended1652 comprehendlessa1654 incomprehensive1656 untraceable1661 uninvestigablea1677 unintelligent1683 incognoscible1691 thought-transcendinga1711 uncognizable1720 acataleptic1727 undescriptive1744 elusive1751 impalpable1781 inaccessible1796 unconjecturable1806 uncognoscible1821 unascertainable1827 unfixable1831 unguessable1832 unrealizable1832 unsurveyable1833 hard-shelled1835 unintellective1837 undeemed1845 graspless1849 unconjectured1850 incognizable1852 ungraspable1853 unreadable1853 super-cerebral1854 elusory1856 trans-conscious1865 intangible1880 uncatchable1892 unspelt1892 unplumbable1895 unknowledgeable1920 indiscutable1933 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > lacking emotional sensibility unfeelingc1000 mis-feelinga1382 stonishc1450 unpainfulc1450 obtuse1509 sprightlessa1522 insensate1553 senseless1560 soulless1568 dull-esprited1591 impassible1592 bluntie1598 impenetrable1600 stockish1600 stolidc1600 incapable1601 stupid1605 tasteless1605 unsensitive1610 unexalted1611 insensible1617 unsensible1619 languid1622 immovable1639 dead-hearted1642 sterile1642 resupine1643 unaffectionate1645 iron-bound1648 resentlessa1649 torpid1656 torpulent1657 impassive1699 unreceptive1722 hebete1743 apathetic1744 stubbed1744 gustless1766 unresponsive1768 unsusceptible1779 tideless-blooded1786 unaffectioned1788 inaccessible1796 hebetudinous1820 unimpressible1828 insensitive1834 apathetical1835 non-sensitive1836 blunt-hearted1845 irreceptive1846 unreceptant1846 unimpressionable1847 anaesthetic1860 insentient1860 hard (also tough, sharp) as nails1862 unsqueamish1893 tone-deaf1894 unget-at-able1897 facty1901 zombie1937 pegamoid1957 1796 F. A. Nitsch Gen. View Kant's Princ. conc. Man 59 Why..should Metaphysics, or that science which treats of existencies inaccessible to the senses..be incapable of equal evidence? 1852 Liberator (Boston) 3 Dec. 1/1 Sooner than accept moral or spiritual bondage of any sort, it were better that we fall back upon the opposite extreme of an inaccessible pride. 1880 Index 24 June 310/1 Oh, my brother, whom my soul reveres With that great love which answers love alone, Tender and true, though dwelling far apart In inaccessible thoughts. 1987 S. T. Dukes Chinese Hand Anal. xx. 318 Apperception is an amorphous, multi-level awareness existing but inaccessible to ordinary consciousness. 2016 A. Webber Breakthrough Moments in Arts-based Psychotherapy (2017) 28 In recalling this dream about the ‘restaurant’, she had woken deep emotions and previously inaccessible grief. †3. Not able to be matched in power, status, etc.; unapproachably high; invincible. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > not overcome or overwhelmed > that cannot be insuperablec1340 unvanquishablea1382 unexpugnable1382 invincible1482 unsuperable1526 inexpugnablea1535 unvincible1554 impugnable1570 conquerless1595 invictivea1607 inaccessible?1611 unsubduable1611 insuppressivea1616 inexsuperable1623 undefeatablea1640 unconquerable1642 irreducible1858 tower-proof1858 insubduable1866 uncrushable1873 unwinnable1972 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads i. 13 Curbe your tongue in time, lest all the Gods..Too few be, and too weake to helpe, thy punisht insolence, When my inaccessible hands [Gk. ἀάπτους χεῖρας], shall fall on thee. 1841 R. W. Emerson Turner in Ess. (1904) 43/2 The reputations that were great and inaccessible change and tarnish. 1905 R. Le Gallienne tr. Hafez Odes 36 He laughs at rivals such as ye Who think to match his inaccessible fame. 4. Mathematics. Of an infinite (and typically uncountable) cardinal number (cf. uncountable adj. 2a): that cannot be expressed as a combination of smaller cardinal numbers using the basic operations of cardinal arithmetic; esp. strongly inaccessible (see note).A weakly inaccessible cardinal number κ cannot be expressed as the sum of fewer than κ cardinal numbers less than itself, and is neither zero nor a successor of another cardinal number. A strongly inaccessible cardinal number additionally has the property that, where α is another cardinal number, 2^α < κ whenever α < κ. ΚΠ 1935 Math. Gaz. 19 146 Every inaccessible aleph is beyond 2^א₀. 1943 Ann. Math. 44 326 We single out among the weakly inaccessible numbers a more special class: the so called strongly inaccessible numbers. 2016 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 81 789 Such cardinals are inaccessible and much more. B. n. 1. A person who or thing which is inaccessible. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > distant parts > a remote or inaccessible place out-place1530 inaccessibilities1651 inaccessible1792 the back of beyond1816 hardscrabble1821 the back of Godspeed1827 out-of-the-way1971 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > coming into the presence of or contact with > quality of being accessible > quality of being inaccessible > that which is inaccessible1792 1792 Golden Days we now Possess (single sheet) Such promontories sure, may be styl'd Inaccessibles, As our Small-Cloaths, by Prudes, are pronounc'd Inexpressibles. 1812 M. Keatinge (title) Eidometrian Local, Victorial, and Military, for Inaccessibles. 1839 Liberator (Boston) 5 July 2/3 Lolling on the sofas of the Otises, the Searses and the what-not inaccessibles of Beacon Street. 1916 Green Bk. Mag. Dec. 971/1 The glamour of the inaccessible is gone; castles in the air have come to earth, and are ready to be moved into. 1969 Delaware County (Pa.) Daily Times 14 Oct. If these Republican candidates become members of the school board, will they continue to be the ‘inaccessibles’? 2012 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 9 Dec. 4 f Life in this setting is easy, except for the almost daily struggle with an array of ‘inaccessibles’. 2. Mathematics. An inaccessible cardinal number; esp. one that is strongly inaccessible. See sense A. 4. ΚΠ 1965 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 30 95 Letting X be the family of accessible cardinals and ω = θ₀, θ₁, . . . the sequence of inaccessibles, M (X) contains every cardinal which is not a ρ₀ number in Mahlo's sense. 2001 Israel Jrnl. Math. 20 229 Let α be an inaccessible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1475
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