Inaccessible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inaccessible \In`ac*cess"i*ble\, a. [L. inaccessibilis: cf. F.
     inaccessible. See {In-} not, and {Accessible}.]
     Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached;
     as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc. --
     {In`ac*cess"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`ac*cess"i*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inaccessible
       adj 1: capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not
              at all [syn: {unaccessible}] [ant: {accessible}]
       2: not capable of being obtained; "a rare work, today almost
          inaccessible"; "timber is virtually unobtainable in the
          islands"; "untouchable resources buried deep within the
          earth" [syn: {unobtainable}, {unprocurable}, {untouchable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "inaccessible":
     Olympian, aloof, antipodean, back of beyond, backward, bashful,
     beyond reach, blank, chilled, chilly, closed forever to, closed to,
     cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, exclusive,
     expressionless, far, far-off, faraway, forbidding, frigid, frosty,
     godforsaken, guarded, hyperborean, icy, impassable, impassive,
     impenetrable, impersonal, impervious, introverted, lost to, modest,
     offish, out of reach, out-of-the-way, remote, removed, repressed,
     reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, seclusive, shrinking,
     standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, un-come-at-able,
     unapproachable, unattainable, unavailable, uncongenial,
     undemonstrative, undiscoverable, unexpansive, ungenial,
     ungetatable, ungettable, unobtainable, unprocurable, unreachable,
     unsecurable, untouchable, withdrawn