OUT OF REACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out of reach mean? 

• OUT OF REACH (adjective)
  The adjective OUT OF REACH has 1 sense:

1. inaccessibly located or situated

  Familiarity information: OUT OF REACH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT OF REACH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inaccessibly located or situated

Synonyms:

out of reach; unapproachable; unreachable; unreached

Context example:

the unreachable stars

Similar:

inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)

 Context examples 

You will find life slows down and the approvals you need from important people are out of reach.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And as he recovered she recovered, fluttering out of reach as his hungry hand went out to her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"I'll tie 'em up out of reach of each other to-night," Bill said, as they took the trail.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Silicon is known for being nontoxic, but researchers had not been able to demonstrate that silicon nanocrystals can up-convert photons, leaving this promising cancer treatment tantalizingly out of reach.

(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)

Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned, exclaimed Meg angrily as she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He would bark and dance about in front of the bull, just out of reach of the great antlers and of the terrible splay hoofs which could have stamped his life out with a single blow.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He used his gun as a club with which to knock her over, but she dodged out of reach.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)