unreachably

English

Etymology

From unreachab(le) +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unreachably (comparative more unreachably, superlative most unreachably)

1. In an unreachable way.

   Antonym: reachably

   • 2021 January 25, Laura Collins-Hughes, “When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-25:

     Largely through black-and-white rehearsal stills of Barbagallo, Davis and Kaminsky, shot at The Brick in Brooklyn, it captures what theater feels like — the everyday incantation of it, and how unreachably far away that seems now.

   • 2017, Steven Vine, “Introduction: Literature in Psychoanalysis”, in Steven Vine, editor, Literature in Psychoanalysis, page 13:

     If Freud's reading here — his progress on the "royal road to ... the unconscious" — is halted, and he finds himself unable to advance further along the way, this point of blockage is at the same time a point of branching -out or divergence: a point from which, says Freud, the thoughts of the dream discandy and disperse unreachably "in every direction into the intricate network of our world of thought" .

See also

• unattainably