as in inaccessible
hard or impossible to get to or get at
a nearly unapproachable fortress in the mountains
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Recent Examples of unapproachable
From the outside, Ramadan notes, the Nautor Swan community can look pretentious, unapproachable.
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Tonya Russell, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
Now researchers can finally access a corner of the geometric universe that was once completely unapproachable.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
This series has not set out to mythologize Indigenous communities with bespoke, unapproachable, or mystic traditional practices and solutions — but instead underscores humility as a throughline.
—Paige Vega, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
No truer than in Orange County, where fine dining too often coincides with unapproachable.
—Brock Keeling, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unapproachable 
Tonya Russell, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
Now researchers can finally access a corner of the geometric universe that was once completely unapproachable.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
This series has not set out to mythologize Indigenous communities with bespoke, unapproachable, or mystic traditional practices and solutions — but instead underscores humility as a throughline.
—Paige Vega, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
No truer than in Orange County, where fine dining too often coincides with unapproachable.
—Brock Keeling, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unapproachable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unapproachable
Adjective
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In circumstances where treatment is either inaccessible or inadequate, frustrated patients are resorting to do-it-yourself medicine, like using psilocybin to manage cluster headaches.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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The facility had no hot water and a handwashing sink was inaccessible due to a ladder in front of the sink and old cans inside the basin.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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How to Get Around the US TikTok Ban TikTok is now unavailable in the United States—and getting around the ban isn’t as simple as using a VPN.—
Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
27 Jan. 2025
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Beginning Monday, about 2,000 bars and restaurants across the state will be able to pour the regional favorite, which for the first 195 years of its history was unavailable in Illinois — except for some grassroots interstate bootlegging.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The beautiful Palisades home my mother cared for most of her life had always been untouchable in my mind’s eye.—
Yesika Salgado,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Their overconfidence led to underestimating systemic risks, believing their models were untouchable.—
Mark Kane,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Unapproachable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unapproachable. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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