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nonachievable

nonachievable adjective: not achievable; unachievable.

Adjective

nonachievable (not comparable)

  1. Not achievable; unachievable.
    • A health care plan which features a significant component of nonachievable objectives (because of the NSF-Bar or for other reasons) may possibly be of some use as a statement of a long-run "ideal" state of affairs to which the country might in some way and some day hopefully aspire.1973, CENTO Conference on the Methodology of National Health Planning, page 105
    • Naturally, a minimal rewrite is a nonachievable ideal in most circumstances, as the absence of all but trivial conditions would have significant knock-on effects for other causal conditions, meaning that everything else would not be the same.2016, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, Causal Case Study Methods, page 260

Origin of nonachievable

From non- + achievable.

Questions about nonachievable

What does nonachievable mean?
Nonachievable means not achievable; unachievable.
What part of speech is nonachievable?
Nonachievable is an adjective.

Words near nonachievable in the dictionary

  1. nonacetate
  2. nonacetic
  3. nonacetogenic
  4. nonacetylated
  5. nonacetylation
  6. nonachievable
  7. nonachieved
  8. nonachievement
  9. nonachievements
  10. nonachiever
  11. nonachievers

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