INACCESSIBLE


Meaning of INACCESSIBLE in English

|in+ adjective

Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin inaccessibilis, from Latin in- in- (I) + Late Latin accessibilis accessible — more at accessible

1. : not accessible: as

a. : not capable of being reached, entered, or approached

inaccessible except by heavy two-wheeled carts — C.L.Jones

b. : not capable of being obtained

a rare work, today almost inaccessible

c. : not easy to form friendly or close relations with : not susceptible to advances or influence : unapproachable

peculiarly inaccessible to such questioning — Christine Weston

a cold inaccessible figure

d. : difficult or impossible to comprehend or enter into : abstruse , esoteric

poetry … inaccessible to contemporary criticism — Frederick Morgan

the novel … seems to me among the most inaccessible — C.J.Rolo

2. : reflecting or evidencing inaccessibility

a look which was austere, inaccessible — Ellen Glasgow

an air of inaccessible respectability — John Buchan

• inaccessibleness “+ noun

• in·accessibly “+ adverb

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