unattainable

/'ʌnə'teinəbl/

Thân thiện

An unattainable dream can sometimes inspire great effort.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Impossible to achieve or obtain: Describes something that cannot be reached, accomplished, or acquired, no matter how much effort is made.
   • Beyond reach: Refers to a state, goal, or object that is so difficult or unrealistic that it is effectively out of reach.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • For many, owning a house in the city center is an unattainable dream.
  • The team set an unattainable deadline, causing unnecessary stress.
  • She realized that perfection was an unattainable standard.

Advanced Usage

• "to render something unattainable": to make something impossible to achieve.
  • The new regulations rendered the project's original goals unattainable.
• "deemed unattainable": considered to be impossible to reach.
  • The summit was once deemed unattainable by climbers.

Variants and Related Words

• Unattainability (noun): The quality or state of being impossible to achieve.
  • The unattainability of the goal did not deter their efforts.
• Attainable (adjective): The direct opposite, meaning able to be achieved or reached.

Synonyms

• Inaccessible: Not able to be reached or entered.
• Unreachable: Unable to be reached or contacted; synonymous with being impossible to achieve.
• Impossible: Not able to occur, exist, or be done.

Antonyms

• Attainable: Able to be achieved or accomplished.
• Achievable: Able to be brought about or reached successfully.
• Feasible: Possible to do easily or conveniently.

Related Phrases

• Pie in the sky: An idiom describing an idea or plan that is fanciful and unattainable.
  • His promises of instant wealth were just pie in the sky.
• Out of reach: A phrase meaning not accessible or unattainable.
  • A luxury car is out of reach for most recent graduates.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. impossible to achieve
   • an unattainable goal

Từ đồng nghĩa

• unachievable
• undoable
• unrealizable