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unavailable

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl//

Not available.

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteUnavailing; ineffective.

    To recriminate now, he said, would be as exasperating as unavailable.

  2. 2

    Not available.

    This product is unavailable at the moment, but we hope to order more by next week.

    A cold, reserved man, he was seen as emotionally unavailable.

    They are also needed to cover for unavailable Hitachi Azumas that require modifications to their inter-car connectors.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English available English unavailable From un- + available.

noun

  1. 1

    A communist who operated underground and was therefore not available for a political leadership position.

Forms

plural
unavailables
comparative
more unavailable
superlative
most unavailable
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).