Inaccessible - English meaning

adjective

Difficult to understand; obscure.

Usage examples:

An abstruse philosophical inquiry

adjective

Not known or understood by many people

Usage examples:

An abstruse philosophical essay

adjective

Understood by few; mysterious or secret.

Usage examples:

Arcane procedures for electing people

adjective

Of the cerebrum of the brain.

Usage examples:

A cerebral haemorrhage

phrasal verb

Remove by or as if by cutting

noun

A fixed point or limit at which something is stopped

Usage examples:

The cutoff for blood donations is usually age 65., we took the cutoff and saved 20 minutes on the t…

noun

A fixed point or level at which something stops

Usage examples:

An age/income cutoff there is an income cutoff for eligibility., keep/put/set a cutoff at sth the r…

adjective

Relating to or supporting the view that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Older men with an elitist attitude about music

noun

A person who believes that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Critics portray him as an out-of-touch elitist

adjective

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

Usage examples:

Esoteric philosophical debates

adjective

Intended for or understood by only a few people who have special knowledge

Usage examples:

Literary readings can sometimes seem esoteric, but we are trying to make them more attractive to mo…

adjective

Excluding or not admitting other things.

Usage examples:

An exclusive focus on success and making money

noun

An item or story published or broadcast by only one source.

Usage examples:

The three media outlets that have broadcast or published exclusives about torture at abu ghraib - c…

adjective

Limited to only one person or group of people

Usage examples:

The pool is for the exclusive use of residents of springfield., an exclusive club

adjective

Lacking any merit or attraction.

Usage examples:

What are you doing in this godforsaken place?

adjective

(of places) not containing anything interesting or attractive, and far from other people

Usage examples:

Why would you come to this godforsaken place?

adjective

Relating to the intellect.

Usage examples:

Children need intellectual stimulation

noun

A person possessing a highly developed intellect.

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A prominent political thinker and intellectual

adjective

Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas at a high level, or involving ideas

Usage examples:

He was among the political and intellectual leaders of his time.

adjective

Far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote.

Usage examples:

Isolated farms and villages

verb

Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.

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A country which is isolated from the rest of the world

adjective

Sad because one has no friends or company.

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Lonely old people whose families do not care for them

adjective

Not discovered or known about; uncertain.

Usage examples:

His origins and parentage are obscure

verb

Keep from being seen; conceal.

Usage examples:

Grey clouds obscure the sun

adjective

Not known to many people

Usage examples:

An obscure 18th-century painter, official policy has changed for reasons that remain obscure.

phrase

(of a place) remote or secluded.

Usage examples:

We're too out of the way for mains electricity

phrase

Dealt with or finished.

Usage examples:

Economic recovery will begin once the election is out of the way

phrase

Unusual, exceptional, or remarkable.

Usage examples:

He'd seen nothing out of the way

adjective

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Usage examples:

Pretentious art films

adjective

Trying to give the appearance of great importance, esp. in a way that is obvious

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Pretentious restaurants, pretentious, silly poetry

adjective

(of air, especially that at high altitudes) of lower pressure than usual; thin.

Usage examples:

Every ounce carried counts triple when you're trudging uphill in rarefied air

verb

Make or become less dense or solid.

Usage examples:

Air rarefies and degrounds the physical body

adjective

Not ordinary, esp. because of being related to wealth, high social position, art, or literature

Usage examples:

You get a very rarefied view of things living on a college campus.

adjective

Rare, exotic, or obscure.

Usage examples:

A few linguistic terms are perhaps a bit recherché for the average readership

adjective

(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse.

Usage examples:

The book is full of recondite information

adjective

Not known about by many people and difficult to understand

Usage examples:

We had to work from material that was both complex and recondite.

adjective

(of a place) situated far from the main centres of population; distant.

Usage examples:

The valley is remote from the usual tourist routes

noun

Having very little connection with or relationship to.

Usage examples:

The theory seems rather intellectual and remote from everyday experience

adjective

Far away in distance, time, or relation; not close

Usage examples:

Ben grew up in a remote part of montana., it happened in the remote past., there is a remote possib…

adjective

(of a place) not seen or visited by many people; sheltered and private.

Usage examples:

The gardens are quiet and secluded

verb

Keep (someone) away from other people.

Usage examples:

I secluded myself up here for a life of study and meditation

adjective

Away from people and busy activities, and often hard to reach

Usage examples:

A secluded area/beach, she spent her days in the seclusion of her room.

adjective

(of a place) isolated and hidden away.

Usage examples:

A wild sequestered spot

verb

Isolate or hide away.

Usage examples:

She is sequestered in deepest dorset

adjective

A sequestered place is peaceful because it is far away from people

Usage examples:

I found a sequestered spot in the park and lay down with my book.

adjective

Relating to, characteristic of, or like a snob.

Usage examples:

The writer takes a rather snobbish tone

adjective

Like a snob

Usage examples:

My brother is very snobbish about cars.

adjective

Relating to, characteristic of, or like a snob.

Usage examples:

She is ostracized by the snobby rich kids at school

adjective

Like a snob (= a person who respects and likes only people who are of a high social class, or a person who has extremely high standards and is not satisfied by the things that ordinary people like)

Usage examples:

My friends who live in the city are snobby about the suburbs., there was a very snobby attitude tow…

abbreviation

Denoting quantum states or wave functions which change sign on inversion through the origin.

symbol

(in units of measurement) micro- (10−6).

Usage examples:

Direct read-out of concentration in ug or mg/l

noun

The twenty-first letter of the alphabet.

adjective

Unable to be reached or contacted.

Usage examples:

An unreachable shelf

adjective

If a place or thing is unreachable, it is not possible to get to it, or to get hold of it

Usage examples:

The village had been unreachable because landslides had blocked the roads., sometimes the solution …