as in unavailable
hard or impossible to get to or get at
that information is unobtainable as long as my computer is down
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Recent Examples of unobtainable
Getting that balance is pretty much unobtainable.
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Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
However, ambiguities in the law and the complexities of implementing a program made that date unobtainable.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Technological advances since the mid-1970s, including acoustic and satellite telemetry, inexpensive underwater cameras, and aerial and underwater drones, have given us insights into the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks that were previously unobtainable.
—Hans Walters, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
Donizetti’s popular 1832 comedy is the story of a poor Italian villager named Nemorino who’s in love with the beautiful but unobtainable woman named Adina.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for unobtainable
Addie Morfoot, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
However, ambiguities in the law and the complexities of implementing a program made that date unobtainable.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Technological advances since the mid-1970s, including acoustic and satellite telemetry, inexpensive underwater cameras, and aerial and underwater drones, have given us insights into the biology, ecology, and behavior of sharks that were previously unobtainable.
—Hans Walters, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
Donizetti’s popular 1832 comedy is the story of a poor Italian villager named Nemorino who’s in love with the beautiful but unobtainable woman named Adina.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for unobtainable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unobtainable
Adjective
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According to the company, QTT enables highly secure and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) services, helping maintain accurate timing and synchronization even when traditional GPS and radio-frequency signals are unavailable, degraded, or intentionally jammed.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
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During those transitions, the ground station is temporarily unavailable.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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To experience the Bay Area as an adult was to explore a very different place, in a way that was entirely inaccessible as a child.—
Winston Ross,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Or even if they are recorded, the paperwork may be unfiled, undigitized and effectively inaccessible.—
Diane Cole,
NPR,
29 May 2026
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“Unobtainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unobtainable. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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