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Not in a manner that is easy to meet, know, talk with, etc.; Not in an accessible manner.

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Usage examples (28)
  • Jonathan Lethem told me that when he first read "The Gift," he pictured its author as a kind of inapproachable seer, either long dead or soaring so high in the...
  • It's a lot of fun being totally inapproachable though.
  • The salespeople are all frozen in their ironed suits and are very quiet and inapproachable.
  • Had he the swiftness of the lion or tiger, his haunts would be inapproachable by man, and he would be a far more terrible assailant than either.
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