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attainable adjective achievable, possible, likely, potential, accessible, probable, at hand, feasible, within reach, practicable, obtainable, reachable, realizable, graspable, gettable, procurable, accomplishable It is unrealistic to believe perfection is a attainable goal. impossible, unlikely, improbable, inaccessible, out of reach, unattainable, unobtainable, impracticable, unreachable, unfeasible, unprocurable Translations attainable adj → erreichbar, zu erreichen; knowledge, happiness, power → zu erlangen attainable [əˈteɪnəbl] adj (see vb) → realizzabile, raggiungibile attainable [əˈteɪnəbl] adj (see vb) → realizzabile, raggiungibile How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Yet these poems are as perfect as possible in structure; each is, in the highest degree attainable, an imitation of a single action. For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. The opinions which we form upon these subjects must depend upon one common principle: for if what I have said in my treatise on Morals is true, a happy life must arise from an uninterrupted course of virtue; and if virtue consists in a certain medium, the middle life must certainly be the happiest; which medium is attainable [1295b] by every one. |
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