Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Impossible to achieve or accomplish: Describes something that cannot be successfully completed, reached, or obtained, regardless of effort.

Usage

The word "unachievable" is used to describe goals, targets, dreams, or tasks that are considered impossible to realize. It emphasizes the inherent impossibility, often due to being unrealistic, overly ambitious, or constrained by insurmountable limitations.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The company set an unachievable sales target, demoralizing the entire team.
  • For many, world peace seems like an unachievable dream.
  • Given the current budget, building a new stadium is unachievable.

Advanced Usage

• "to deem something unachievable": to officially judge or consider something impossible to achieve.
  • The committee deemed the proposed timeline unachievable.
• "to render a goal unachievable": to cause a goal to become impossible.
  • The sudden loss of funding rendered the project unachievable.

Variants and Related Words

• Unattainable (adj): Impossible to reach or achieve. (Often used interchangeably with "unachievable").
  • The summit felt unattainable in the storm.
• Unreachable (adj): Impossible to reach or contact.
  • The star is unreachable with current technology.
• Impossible (adj): Not able to occur, exist, or be done. (A broader and stronger term).
  • It's impossible to be in two places at once.

Synonyms

• Impossible
• Unattainable
• Impracticable
• Unrealizable
• Hopeless (informal, when describing a task)

Antonyms

• Achievable
• Attainable
• Possible
• Feasible
• Realizable

Related Phrases

• A bridge too far: An idiom for a goal or plan that is too ambitious to be practical or achievable.
  • Expanding into ten new countries this year is a bridge too far.
• Pie in the sky: An idiom describing an idea or plan that is appealing but unrealistic and unachievable.
  • His promises of instant wealth are just pie in the sky.

Adjective

1. impossible to achieve
   • an unattainable goal