Unprocurable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʌnpɹəˈkjʊəɹəb(ə)l/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unprocurable is an adjective meaning Unable to be procured.
Meaning
Unable to be procured.
More Meanings
- Something that cannot be procured.
Example Sentences
It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable, that man must first have used iron.
But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable.
We have been told in many plaintive articles and letters in the London press that servants nowadays are almost unprocurable, and even the best people are having to shut up part of their houses and live in one floor, and so on.
Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness. Where a goat was unprocurable, the image of a human phallus of extravagent [sic] dimensions was erected in the temple and worshipped.
Word Forms
- unprocurables
Synonyms for unprocurable
Depending on context, synonyms include unobtainable, inaccessible, unavailable, untouchable.
Antonyms for unprocurable
Common opposites include obtainable, procurable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unobtainable, untouchable, inaccessible, unavailable, unprocured, unpurchasable.
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