Antonyms for reachable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : reech
Phonetic Transcription : ritʃ


Definition of reachable

Origin :
  • 1520s, from reach (v.); earliest use is of stretches of water. Meaning "extent of reaching" is from 1540s; that of "act of reaching" is from 1560s.
  • Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?[Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"]
  • adj accessible
Example sentences :
  • Neither set of followers was reachable by the other propaganda.
  • Extract from : « Sinn Fein » by P. S. O'Hegarty
  • This was the only reachable place that had looked like game country.
  • Extract from : « My Attainment of the Pole » by Frederick A. Cook
  • On the contrary, they are most widely known throughout the store; most reachable, both within their offices and without.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of a Great Store » by Edward Hungerford
  • He waited temptingly in reachable places and even lured one of his enemies to attack him.
  • Extract from : « Tam O' The Scoots » by Edgar Wallace
  • He pats a building at its reachable point—a stone balustrade at a step corner.
  • Extract from : « Somehow Good » by William de Morgan
  • His head was tilted a little, his hands were on his hips except when he used them to push and test and try some reachable part.
  • Extract from : « Skyrider » by B. M. Bower
  • Probably not—Eddorian surveys had found no trace of any such life in any reachable plenum.
  • Extract from : « Triplanetary » by Edward Elmer Smith

Synonyms for reachable

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