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adjectiveunnearable (comparative more unnearable, superlative most unnearable)
comparative more unnearable · superlative most unnearable
- Impossible to come near; unapproachable.
[...] that unnearable spout was cast by one selfsame whale...
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter LI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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