Untakable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Unable to be removed, seized, or captured by force; not capable of being taken away or conquered by physical or legal means; resistant to loss, capture, or deprivation
2. Incapable of being physically appropriated, seized, or taken hold of; immune to being overcome, captured, or extracted by any method; secure against confiscation or removal
3. Describing something that cannot be possessed or gained through force or effort; not subject to loss or acquisition by seizure; inherently secure from being taken or captured in any manner

Etymology: "Untakable" is a plain combination of two English parts: the prefix "un-", meaning "not", attached to "takable," which is itself "take" plus the suffix "-able," meaning "able to be." Put together, the word describes something that cannot be taken, seized or carried off. The sense of the word follows directly from those parts. "Take" in its older and broader meanings covers seizing by force, capturing a place, and removing something from someone's possession, so "untakable" naturally extends to fortresses that cannot be conquered, property that cannot be confiscated, and ideas or assets that cannot be deprived from their holder. The word is a transparent formation, built on the spot from familiar pieces rather than borrowed from another language.

Synonyms: unseizable, unreachable, unobtainable

Antonyms: takable, seizable, reachable