inapproachable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of inapproachable
First recorded in 1820–30; in- 3 + approachable
Example Sentences
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Coleridge was aware that Voltaire, in common with every Frenchman until the present generation, held it as a point of faith that the French drama was inapproachable in excellence.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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.
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 Stretton, Hesba
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)
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 Spielhagen, Friedrich
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