ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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

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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