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单词 unaffordable
释义
unaffordable
adjective
uk
/ˌʌn.əˈfɔː.də.bəl/us
/ˌʌn.əˈfɔːr.də.bəl/
C1
tooexpensiveforpeopleto beabletobuyorpayfor:
支付不起的
For manypeople, thistypeoftreatmentremainsunaffordable.许多人支付不起这种治疗方法。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
costing a lot of money
  • expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes.
  • dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket.
  • costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery.
  • priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey.
  • exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
  • a bottomless pitidiom
  • bottomless
  • capital intensive
  • cheap
  • cheap at half the priceidiom
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
  • costsomeonea pretty pennyidiom
  • costsomeonedearidiom
  • daylight robbery
  • dear
  • exorbitant
  • gouge
  • non-competitive
  • outprice
  • pretty
  • price fixing
  • pricesomeoneout
  • priceyourselfout of the marketidiom
  • prohibitive
  • sight
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Expensive & luxurious
(Definition ofunaffordablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunaffordable

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The overcrowding thus arose from the poverty which made rentsunaffordable.
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Most insurance is provided via employers, who increasingly find the costunaffordable.
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Rising fertilizer costs made themunaffordablefor many smallholder farmers.
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From the perspective of the payer, the immediate, aggregate cost of the service may appearunaffordable.
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Examining the environmental, social, and psychological influences on health seems likeunaffordableindulgence in the face of such a dangerous enemy.
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The former refers to services beingunaffordable, the latter to services being unavailable or unsuitable.
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Both directions of this metaphorical inversion make environmental, social, or long-term analysis seem likeunaffordableluxuries, for medicine and antiterrorism.
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Very often this is anunaffordableproblem, and only random subsets of data can be analysed.
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A paradigm centred on piped individual connections evolved, which persisted even after the government declared itunaffordablefrom the 1970s.
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For one thing, the higher price may beunaffordableto those on low incomes (such as students).
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Inexpensive services of little effect have poor cost-effectiveness ratios; highly cost-effective services may nevertheless beunaffordable.
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For yet others, the political democracy wasunaffordableif not unviable.
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In many developing world settings, such medicines may be unavailable orunaffordablefor the majority of those who need them.
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The pressure of limited time and budget makes any researchunaffordableand risky.
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The computation of the exact likelihood for a large pedigree with multiple loops isunaffordablein terms of computing power.
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