inapproachable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of inapproachable
First recorded in 1820–30; in- 3 + approachable
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Is it not strange," said Oswald, after a short pause, "what inapproachable beings some of us children of Adam are?
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
Mr. Holmes was a cheerful companion at first, but gradually he grew melancholy, and at times inapproachable.
From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by John R. (John Roy) Musick
Old Weston is an out-of-the-way village in the county, and until within a few years was almost inapproachable by carriages in winter; but in what the point of the remark lies, I do not know.
From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
If you hear that he is bold and fearless, that is true; and if you are told that he is shy and wary and inapproachable, that is also true.
From Wilderness Ways by Charles Copeland
Was she not something like these pure, distant snowy pinnacles, inapproachable and repellent, with icy-cold breath which petrified all lips that drew too near to them?
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
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