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impracticable

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[ US /ˌɪmˈpɹæktɪkəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpɹˈæktɪkəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not capable of being carried out or put into practice
    refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility
    a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances

How To Use impracticable In A Sentence

  • Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
  • It is quite impracticable for me to arrange an alternative source of payment at this notice.
  • Another seemingly plausible, but impracticable scheme is feared to end up wasting the nation's energy and worsening social division.
  • I don't want to use the term 'overreach,' " Dunn told me, pausing for effect, "but the broad nature of the proposed regulations, both in terms of who they apply to, this gigantic universe of people, what they consider 'children's programming,' the unworkable, impracticable standards they use in their nutritional values - that's the issue. NPR Topics: News
  • His active brain, stimulated by a desire for wealth, and an egotism which might be called impracticable, wrought out original plans of farming without number. The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.
  • The fact that his ideas were totally impracticable was irrelevant.
  • If consent is impossible or impracticable, it may be permissible to conduct the research in the absence of consent in certain situations.
  • Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • A number of schemes ran through my mind, only to be dismissed as impracticable. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • The proposed revalidation by yearly exam is impracticable and of unproven efficacy. Times, Sunday Times
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