Oxford English Dictionary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "unattainable".
Murrough frequently complained of having Brian Boru held up to him, an unattainable standard of perfection.
Until you do, it matters not where we are, for Margaron will be unattainable.
From such laudable arts did the valor of the Imperial troops receive a degree of firmness and docility unattainable by the impetuous and irregular passions of barbarians.
But beyond, and high above all, as if the spirits of the air had suddenly unveiled their bright abodes, placed in scaleless altitude in the stainless sky, heaven-kissing, companions of the unattainable ether, were the glorious Alps, clothed in dazzling robes of light by the setting sun.
I stood in the doorway with all that had gone unspoken and unconfronted in my friendship with Devin hanging between us as Darin sang with a detached mourning for the unattainable, the gulf between what we wish for and what we get.
He had mentioned the one-to-one ratio simply as an unattainable opening salvo to establish one end-point to the range, however ridiculous that endpoint was, as any good negotiator would start a discussion, with the hope that Schuler might ultimately see his way clear to saying he could underwrite perhaps half a billion dollars.
There be passed a quiet afternoon, nursing a light fever in his bunk, thinking of Hardman and his strange southward odyssey, and of the silt banks glowing like luminous gold in the meridian sun, both forbidding and inviting, like the lost but forever beckoning and unattainable shores of the amnionic paradise.
Iron suspension bridges began to be used at the end of the 18th century for road bridges with spans unattainable at that time in any other system.