Meaning of unscalable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not scalable, that cannot be climbed.
   not-comparable
2. Not scalable, that cannot be changed in scale.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] Remember⟳, sir, my liege, The kings your ancestors, together with The natural bravery of your isle, which stands As Neptune’s park⟳, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters, With sands that will not bear⟳ your enemies' boats, But suck⟳ them up to the topmast. […]”

“The other end⟳ of their promenade was closed by a lofty and almost unscaleable precipice,the abode of hundreds of sea-fowl of different kinds […]”

“1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings, Why did God make⟳ me an outcast and a stranger in mine own⟳ house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat⟳ unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch⟳ the streak of blue above.”

“The idea has its detractors. Skeptics argue⟳ the whole idea is unscalable, and that large vertical farms would be insatiable consumers of energy to keep⟳ the plants lit, healthy, and harvested […]”

“The result⟳ is a marketplace where low-revenue companies (say⟳ zero to $2 million per annum) are attracting valuations in the tens of millions of dollars and raising too much money. Most of these businesses will turn⟳ out to be poorly run⟳, not special, unscalable, and will not deliver⟳ negative returns.”

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