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Inaccessible

[in-uhk-ses-uh-buhl]

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adjective

not accessible; unapproachable.

Origin:
1545–55; < Late Latin inaccessibilis. See in-³, accessible

Related forms

in·ac·ces·si·bil·i·ty, in·ac·ces·si·ble·ness, noun

in·ac·ces·si·bly, adverb

Synonyms
unreachable, remote, unattainable.

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E-mail is sometimes inaccessible to students and staff on the move, and text-message systems have been.

Advances in horizontal drilling and the hydraulic fracturing of rock have made it possible to get previously inaccessible gas out.

Many of the birds nest on protected lands inaccessible to the public.

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E-mail is sometimes inaccessible to students and staff on the move, and text-message systems have been.

Advances in horizontal drilling and the hydraulic fracturing of rock have made it possible to get previously inaccessible gas out.

Many of the birds nest on protected lands inaccessible to the public.

Each of us has a rich inner mental life, one that seems inaccessible to everyone else.

The flood overwhelmed the site's servers, making it inaccessible to the public.

The vast output of regulations and reports by public bodies remains largely inaccessible to the citizens it affects.

Many people use internet cafés, but these are inaccessible to rural folk.

It is about logging companies opening up previously inaccessible forests.

But getting genes to inaccessible targets has been one of the field's biggest hurdles.

Earth's surface that has been largely inaccessible to science.

Didn't do the roof because it is damned near inaccessible.

These firms dump rubbish in inaccessible containers without any thought for recycling.

Most of it is inaccessible except by foot or on horseback.

Inaccessible is maybe accessible depending upon the experience of the surgeon.

The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible.

E-mail is sometimes inaccessible to students and staff on the move, and text-message systems have been slow.

Worse, nowadays, new oil tends to be found in relatively inaccessible spots or in more unwieldy forms.

Airlifting in particular allows darted rhinos to be quickly removed from otherwise inaccessible terrain.

Most carbon had been sequestered underground, inaccessible to the biosphere.

If it reached zero, the site would become inaccessible.

Draws on previously inaccessible sources in a study of the divergent paths of military innovation in the three countries.

And it would be a good way of taking pilotless reconnaissance drones to otherwise inaccessible places and then launching them.

Its inaccessible location on top of the peak gave the whole complex a feeling of mystical isolation.

Some speculated that the rover had fallen into a crater or parked in such a way as to render the reflector inaccessible.

Yes, without continued use, things become inaccessible.

Which makes the shopping list for stuff to buy after work, inaccessible.

Reading it is hard work, but the book is not inaccessible.

Sometimes they can be removed surgically, but many times the affected cell is in an inaccessible area.

For starters, vet science gathers information that policy or mores make inaccessible in human science.

The country is so inaccessible that its horrors are rarely reported.

If this sounds untenable, keep in mind that for patients with an inaccessible brain tumors, the alternative is certain death.

China's consumers are too dispersed, too inaccessible and too different from each other.

All other drugs remain inaccessible until selected from the screen.

Even if the filtering is exposed it's easy to say the site was inaccessible due to technical reasons.

American politicians will become even more cloistered and inaccessible.

These illegal activities allowed them to uncover otherwise inaccessible information and boost circulation and revenue.

Now they are becoming more inaccessible to students from poor- and middle-income families.

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World English Dictionary

inaccessible (ˌɪnækˈsɛsəb^əl)

—*adj*
	not accessible; unapproachable

inaccessi'bility

—n

inac'cessibleness

—n

inac'cessibly

—*adv*

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