Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not accessible; not attainable; beyond reach or comprehension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible.
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- adjective That cannot be
come at ;unreachable ,inaccessible ,unattackable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective difficult to reach or attain
Etymologies
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Examples
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This Divito [182] is the most skilful of all politicians: he has a perfect art in being unintelligible in discourse, and uncomeatable in business.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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"Inaccessible" had been in use at least for two centuries, and it is very common at the present time -- "uncomeatable" is still taboo in literary circles, but not unusual in familiar parlance. name as author, and is printed in Franklin's Works (1).
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Dr. Donne was mentioned as a writer of the same period, with a very interesting countenance, whose history was singular, and whose meaning was often quite as uncomeatable, without a personal citation from the dead, as that of any of his contemporaries.
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The most incompatible, the most unamalgamatible, and the most uncomeatable qualities that ever refused to unite in the same individual, had no scruple at all to unite in Phil.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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_Tatler_ as Divito, who has a perfect art in being unintelligible in discourse and uncomeatable in business.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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I won't trust my honour, I assure you; my honour is infallible and uncomeatable.
The Double-Dealer, a comedy William Congreve 1699
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I won't trust my honour, I assure you; my honour is infallible and uncomeatable.
The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699
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