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adjective Not able to be obtained, acquired or reached.
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adjective not capable of being obtained
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The point he was making was that imagination plays a greater part in sexual temptation than flagrantly exposed flesh: the apparently unobtainable is more enticing than what is freely proffered.
[Aurora - the term originated based on the word "unobtainable", because that is the prerequisite characteristic of an element that is being discussed by scientists when that element is still only hypothetical ... becasue it has never been "obtained" yet.]
If any such product prompts me to consider a purchase I defer to interweb suppliers, safe in the knowledge that any such purchase will inevitably be 'unobtainable'.
And others achieved all they had ever dreamed, and then uselessly set more "unobtainable" goals for themselves, guaranteed to put a strain on the fuel pump, just to avoid the false dilemma of stagnation.
Oncologists said 100 of 260 cancer patients at Gaza's largest hospital are unable to receive effective treatment because the required combination of several medicines is unobtainable.
In a CBS News television interview Tuesday, the president responded to McConnell's statement that a solution to the nation's deficit spending problems was unobtainable with Obama in the White House.
In a CBS News television interview on Tuesday, President Obama had this response to McConnell's statement the day before that a solution to the nation's fiscal mess was unobtainable with Mr. Obama in the White House.
Oncologists said 100 of 260 cancer patients at Gaza's largest hospital are unable to receive effective treatment because the required combination of several medicines is unobtainable.
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