unaffordable
adjective
un·af·ford·able
ˌən-ə-ˈfȯr-də-bəl 
: too costly to be paid for : not affordable
unaffordable tuition
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NCDs disproportionately harm people in low- and middle-income countries and frequently require unavailable or unaffordable treatments.
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Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
In places where higher education was all but a miraculous dream, the act of reading can be intimidating, exclusionary, not to mention unaffordable for people who spend their days working two to three jobs and twelve-hour shifts.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Both are retired and could no longer afford to live in Venezuela, where the collapsing economy made even basic necessities unaffordable.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Her luxurious lifestyle of flashy clothes and hard partying is an unaffordable mask for the lonely void she’s tried to fill with the hustle for success.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 May 2025
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Cynthia Tully, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
In places where higher education was all but a miraculous dream, the act of reading can be intimidating, exclusionary, not to mention unaffordable for people who spend their days working two to three jobs and twelve-hour shifts.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 14 May 2025
Both are retired and could no longer afford to live in Venezuela, where the collapsing economy made even basic necessities unaffordable.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
Her luxurious lifestyle of flashy clothes and hard partying is an unaffordable mask for the lonely void she’s tried to fill with the hustle for success.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 May 2025
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“Unaffordable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unaffordable. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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