What does unprocurable mean?
Unprocurable means Unable to be procured..
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/ʌnpɹəˈkjʊəɹəb(ə)l/ · adjective
Unable to be procured..
It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable, that man must first have used iron.
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.
But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable.
Use unprocurable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unprocurable means Unable to be procured..
Common synonyms include unobtainable, inaccessible, unavailable, untouchable.
Possible antonyms include obtainable, procurable.
It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable, that man must first have used iron.
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