inaccessible
pronunciation
How to pronounce inaccessible in British English:
UK [ˌɪnækˈsesəbl]
How to pronounce inaccessible in American English:
US [ˌɪnækˈsesəbl]
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- Adjective:
- capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all
- not capable of being obtained
Word Origin
- inaccessible (adj.)
- early 15c., from Middle French inaccessible (14c.), from Late Latin inaccessibilis "unapproachable," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + accessibilis (see accessible). Related: Inaccessibly; inaccessibility. Earlier in same sense was unaccessible (c. 1400).
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Example
- 1. My memory of her feels contained within servers and hard drives , locked away and inaccessible .
- 2. But dr raskar reckons that his technique will eventually open a range of applications , from studying inaccessible nooks and crannies of the human body to looking into burning buildings .
- 3. Sichuan province , located in southwest china , is one of the largest and most inaccessible provinces in the nation .
- 4. She 's so " scary and inaccessible " that popular jock ( freddie prinze jr. ) is sure he 'll lose out on the challenge of making her over into a prom queen .
- 5. Glaciologists , seismologists and climatologists from around the world are landing on the ice sheet in helicopters , taking ice-breakers up its inaccessible coastline and measuring glaciers in a race against time to discover why the ice in greenland is vanishing so much faster than expected .