All 3 Uses of
attain
in
Childhood's End
- When goal was attained, there would be an enormous enrichment of human experience.†
Chpt 15 *attained = gained or reached something with effort
- Did it too have desires, did it have goals it sensed dimly yet might never attain?†
Chpt 23attain = gain or reach something with effort
- There was a time when it had been an unattainable goal, a symbol of all that he had never really expected to achieve.†
Chpt 24unattainable = not able to be gained or reached with effortstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattainable means not and reverses the meaning of attainable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
to gain or reach something with effort