unattainably
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- adverb
- /ˌʌnəˈteɪnəblɪ/
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inaccesiblemente
- Your parents either force you to be ridiculously unattainably good with all odds stacked against you, or we screw the concept, disobey our parents, and do whatever we want because perfection is impossible.
Examples
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Thus, societal pressures for men are not to be unattainably thin but, rather, to be unattainably muscular.
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It took me so long to pursue composition professionally because it seemed so unattainably difficult.
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Thus, societal pressures for men are not to be unattainably thin but, rather, to be unattainably muscular.
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Phillipe manages to pull off Barbie's unattainably lanky, glamorous look while still looking proud and awesome, not blank and deformed, as
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She dreamed of an unattainably beautiful life that seemed beyond her reach.
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Many people strive for unattainably high standards, leaving them feeling inadequate.
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The athlete's record was set at an unattainably fast pace, making it hard for others to compete.
Synonyms
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5.7
To a very great degree that seems like it cannot be true
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In a way that cannot be overcome
In a way that cannot be reached
So far away that you cannot reach it
In a way that is not possible or very hard to do
In a way that is too difficult or impossible to do
In a way that cannot be overcome
So hard to reach that few people can get to it
How Attainable
Surface Forms
Morphology
unattainably = unattainable (transparent) = un + attain + able + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'unattainable', a transparent and regular derivation.
Etymology
Unattainably comes from attain, which meant 'to reach or hold' and is the same root you see in words like contain and retain. With un- meaning 'not' and -ly meaning 'in a ... way', unattainably therefore means 'in a way that cannot be reached', so it describes something impossible to achieve.