Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unapproachable
IPA transcription: [,ʌnəpɹ'oʊtʃəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unapproachable, unreachable, unreached, out_of_reach(p)
    Meaning: inaccessibly located or situated; "an unapproachable chalet high in the mountains"; "an unreachable canyon"; "the unreachable stars"
  • Synonyms: unapproachable
    Meaning: discouraging intimacies; reserved; "an unapproachable executive"
Usage examples
  • But he seemed to have as much contempt for the female sex as for men; he was discreet, almost unapproachable, with them. Fyodor Pavlovitch began to regard him rather differently.
  • The majority of them do not keep up their old unapproachable majesty, but become more and more democratized and even vulgarized, casting aside the external prestige that remained to them, and thereby destroying the very thing it was their function to maintain.
  • We all know how conceited people are apt to become who have no opportunity to compare themselves with superiors. John Bull, never over-modest, surveyed the Exhibition of 1851, and discovered, to his great surprise, that he was not the unapproachable Bull of the universe which he had fondly supposed.