inaccessible

[ in-uhk-ses-uh-buhl ]

/ ˌɪn əkˈsɛs ə bəl /

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adjective

not accessible; unapproachable.

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unreachable, remote, unattainable.

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Origin of inaccessible

From the Late Latin word inaccessibilis, dating back to 1545–55. See in-³, accessible

OTHER WORDS FROM inaccessible

in·ac·ces·si·bil·i·ty, in·ac·ces·si·ble·ness, nounin·ac·ces·si·bly, adverb

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How to use inaccessible in a sentence

For example, HCA Holdings was sued for allegations that 100 or more of its health care facilities’ and hospitals’ websites were inaccessible to people with blindness.
Is your website at risk for an ADA accessibility lawsuit?|Richard Horvath|November 12, 2020|Search Engine Land
The trend for ever larger models and data sets—favored by OpenAI, for example—will continue to make the cutting edge of AI inaccessible to most researchers.
AI is wrestling with a replication crisis|Emily Luong|November 12, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Research is difficult because the creatures live at depths that make them inaccessible.
Giant squid that washed ashore in South Africa is a rare glimpse of the deep-sea creature|Heather Djunga|November 10, 2020|Washington Post
That could be a big deal for a field that has grown increasingly expensive and inaccessible as the data sets used become ever larger.
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data|Karen Hao|October 16, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Some individuals in Pakistan, a nation with about 75 million internet users, told TechCrunch that the TikTok app and its website were already inaccessible to them.
Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos|Manish Singh|October 9, 2020|TechCrunch
Its inaccessibility from both solbreeders and daylight were all we could have asked for now.
The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks|Max Brooks|January 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
At one time this inaccessibility was far greater, and only those came to Scilly who had business there.
The Cornwall Coast|Arthur L. Salmon
The inaccessibility of Red River Settlement in winter added much to the anxiety.
The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists|George Bryce
Hence the two continents present the extremes of accessibility and inaccessibility.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
You may encounter during your wanderings similar fragments of woodland, saved by their inaccessibility from the invading axe.
Alone|Norman Douglas
This is a very serious question, and the plan is open to the objection already suggested of the inaccessibility of Mecca.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883|Various

British Dictionary definitions for inaccessible

inaccessible

/ (ˌɪnækˈsɛsəbəl) /

adjective

not accessible; unapproachable

Derived forms of inaccessible

inaccessibility or inaccessibleness, nouninaccessibly, adverb

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