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Unobtainable vs Unprocurable - What's the difference?

unobtainable | unprocurable |

As adjectives the difference between unobtainable and unprocurable

is that unobtainable is not able to be obtained, acquired or reached while unprocurable is impossible to procure; unobtainable.

unobtainable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not able to be obtained, acquired or reached.

    • unprocurable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to procure; unobtainable.
  • * 1884 , (Richard Francis Burton), The Book of the Sword :
    • It is clear, for instance, in Central Africa, where copper and tin were unprocurable , that man must first have used iron.
  • * 1917 , The Guardian , 1 Jun 1917:
    • 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.
  • * 1949 , (George Orwell), Nineteen Eighty-Four :
    • But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable .