INAPPROACHABLE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

inapproachable

adjective

ˌi-nə-ˈprō-chə-bəl

Definition of inapproachable

as in inaccessible

hard or impossible to get to or get at conventional wisdom had long held that the mountain's summit was inapproachable from the northern slope

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Making wellness accessible As holistic wellness becomes increasingly mainstream, Warren-Thomas worries that rising costs are making some services inaccessible to the communities they were originally intended to serve.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
Many places that can be reached early in the fall become inaccessible later when the sloughs and channels are half-frozen.

— Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of inaccessible

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Also unavailable for the Heat was guard Pelle Larsson, due to the illness that also had him out of Tuesday night’s intrasquad scrimmage.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
The Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act is designed to compete with roughly 65 countries that already offer incentives unavailable in this country.

— Julie Sharp, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of unavailable

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On this day in 1931, news broke that Al Capone, Chicago’s untouchable crime boss, had been found guilty.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026
No one else is untouchable, including Munetaka Murakami, who will be a free agent after ’27, and Kyle Teel, who did not deliver offensively and spent most of the season rehabbing injuries.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

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