unattainable

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1. unattainable - Noun

2. unattainable - Adjective

3. unattainable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

impossible to achieve

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Examples

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. Howard Zinn

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. Haim Ginott

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is too condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. Émile Durkheim

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart. Clement Greenberg

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture. Dmitri Shostakovich

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery. Edith Wharton

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