单词 | unachievable |
释义 | unachievableadj. (un- prefix1 1b.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adjective] > unattainable unachievable1657 unattainable1662 uncome-at-able1694 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. 484 If..it should be unatchievable, not to be attained to by some. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 484 Projects; unachievable even the Preface of them. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 2/1 A reader of less nimble wits who has not caught the trick of suppressing the verbs and leaping to a meaning unachievable by syntax. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1657 |
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