unattainable

British  

/ ˌʌnəˈteɪnəbəl /

adjective

1. not achievable or accomplishable

   an unattainable goal

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Example Sentences

Koh admits he lived a life unattainable to most North Koreans.

From The Wall Street Journal

Two years into his government, and growing increasingly frustrated with what he said were the central bank’s unattainable inflation targets, he abruptly reset inflation targets during a press conference in December 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's frankly astonishing that airlines think they can ignore the rules and mislead customers with unattainable prices, so it's absolutely right that the ASA has made this ruling," he said.

From BBC

Companies have to thread a fine needle to get moonshot awards right—setting targets that aren’t too easy, but also aren’t so hard that the awards are unattainable and lose all incentive value.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her sister once wrote that her “aim was high, the ideal unattainable . . . too high to attain to the fruition of the soul and be satisfied.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• futile
• hopeless
• impassable
• impervious
• impractical
• inaccessible
• inconceivable
• insurmountable
• unimaginable
• unreasonable
• unthinkable
• unworkable
• useless