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- adjective
unobtainable
Etymologies
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non- + obtainable
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Truman Capote put it, "the face, with those lilac eyes, is a prisoner's dream, a secretary's self-fantasy: unreal, nonobtainable, at the same time shy, overly vulnerable, very human."
NYT > Home Page By CATHY HORYN 2011
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