nonaccomplishable
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From non- + accomplishable.
Adjective
[edit]nonaccomplishable (not comparable)
- Not accomplishable; unachievable.
- 1926, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, page 839:
- It is the greatest project that concerns us that can most easily be solved, provided we start with the determination to accomplish the thing that appears to be nonaccomplishable.
- 1970, Karl H. Potter, Buddhist Philosophy from 350 to 600 A.D., page 348:
- In order to give priory to the potentially accomplishable (bhavya) selves the subsiding states are discussed first although the other states rise both in potentially accomplishable and nonaccomplishable life forms.
- 1976, The Bureaucrat - Volumes 5-6, page 70:
- When the president tells me to buy 12 chairs, I will buy 12 chairs. But when the president tells me to vaccinate every man, woman, and child against swine flu, I will refuse because it is dangerous and a nonaccomplishable goal.