unachievable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That cannot be achieved (or only with great difficulty).
Example Sentences
- "However, the limitations of a storytelling project such as this seems to be that the notion of validation is unachievable mainly because it falls short of the so-called 'Hitchens's razor': that 'that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence'."
- "Driver training has yet to take place, making SWR's promise of entry into passenger service this year looking unachievable."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Middle English achieven English achieve Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English achievable English unachievable From un- + achievable.