| 单词 | unavailable |
| 释义 | unavailable (once / 3435 pages) adj If you can't meet your friend for dinner on Tuesday because you have other plans, you are unavailable. If the shoes you want have been sold out, they are unavailable. Unavailable means not accessible. If you avail yourself of something, you use it or take advantage of it. You might avail yourself of discount tickets to the theater provided by your school. If the tickets are all sold out, they are unavailable to you. In the context of dating, if someone is unavailable, he or she is already in a steady relationship or married. Someone emotionally unavailable is not open to sharing their feelings. WORD FAMILYunavailable: unavailability+/avail: available, availed, availing, avails/availability: availabilities/available: availability, availableness, availably, unavailable/availing: unavailing/unavailing: unavailingly USAGE EXAMPLESThere is no point in playing in Week 17 when important starters are unavailable and the results become skewed. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) The Monroe County public defender’s office was unavailable to comment before business hours Wednesday. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) But they were unavailable over the Thanksgiving holiday. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) adj not available or accessible or at hand fresh milk was unavailable during the emergency his secretary said he was unavailable for comment Syn|Ant inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable not capable of being obtained out of stocknot available for sale or use available obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service accessibleeasily obtained acquirablecapable of being acquired addressablecapable of being addressed easyless in demand and therefore readily obtainable forthcomingavailable when required or as promised getable, gettable, obtainable, procurablecapable of being obtained in stockavailable for use or sale lendableavailable for lending visiblepresent and easily available on handreadily available on tapavailable for immediate use on tap(of liquids) available by turning a tap opennot having been filled for sale, purchasableavailable for purchase ready(of especially money) immediately available |
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