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in-uh-k-SES-uh-bl/ˌɪnəkˈsesəbl/

Inaccessible means impossible or very hard to reach, obtain, or understand: inaccessible terrain, inaccessible jargon. Accessible sits opposite; a caption does not restore a night bus.

Meaning

Impossible or very hard to reach, obtain, or understand.

Examples

• “An inaccessible night bus is a catchment exclusion, not a caption.”
• “Unreachable is the place twin. Obscure is the meaning twin. A caption is a line. A route is a timetable. Name the exclusion, or restore the bus.”

Good to know

Hard or impossible to reach or obtain. Opposite: accessible. A caption ≠ a night bus.

Near in meaning

unreachable

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