inapproachable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- inapproachability noun
- inapproachably adverb
Etymology
Origin of inapproachable
First recorded in 1820–30; in- 3 + approachable
Example Sentences
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You fulfil your duties here, you care and labor as hundreds would not do in your place; but here you act the mistress, inapproachable, untouched by all the common things of life.
From A Sister's Love A Novel by Heimburg, W.
Had he the swiftness of the lion or tiger, his haunts would be inapproachable by man, and he would be a far more terrible assailant than either.
From Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography by Johnson, Clark, M.D.
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 Musick, John R. (John Roy)
Besides all these contradictions, he is solitary, unknown, inapproachable.
From Secret of the Woods by Long, William Joseph
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
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