nonaccomplishable en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + accomplishable.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not accomplishable; unachievable.
When the president tells me to buy 12 chairs, I will buy 12 chairs. But when the president tells me to vaccinate every man, woman, and child against swine flu, I will refuse because it is dangerous and a nonaccomplishable goal.
1976, The Bureaucrat - Volumes 5-6, page 70:In order to give priory to the potentially accomplishable (bhavya) selves the subsiding states are discussed first although the other states rise both in potentially accomplishable and nonaccomplishable life forms.
1970, Karl H. Potter, Buddhist Philosophy from 350 to 600 A.D., page 348:It is the greatest project that concerns us that can most easily be solved, provided we start with the determination to accomplish the thing that appears to be nonaccomplishable.
1926, Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, page 839: