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impracticable Definition

im·prac·ti·cable (im prak′ti kə bəl)

adjective

  1. not capable of being carried out in practice an impracticable plan
  2. not capable of being used an impracticable road
  3. Now Rare not capable of being managed or dealt with; intractable an impracticable person

Etymology: < in- + practicable

impracticable Related Forms
im·prac′·ti·cabil′·ity noun or im·prac′·ti·cable·ness im·prac′·ti·cably adverb
impracticable Synonyms

impracticable

modif.

infeasible, unworkable, unachievable; see impossible 1.

impracticable Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Of course design and space constraints could make a full upgrade impracticable.

Preposition: for

  • reason: This means there would be no basis for a legal challenge ( which was impracticable for other reasons anyway ).

Infinitive complement

  • do: The mental health officer need not interview the offender if it is impracticable to do so.
  • provide: Needless to add it would have been utterly impracticable to provide anything approaching it in completeness by means of independent stops.
  • hold: The inspector in charge decided it was impracticable to hold a parade and proposed a " street identification " ( Group ) instead.
  • apply: However, dithranol is often impracticable to apply to multiple small lesions and will irritate flexures.
  • include: It seemed impracticable to include them all in this space.
  • carry: It would also be useful, tho probably impracticable to carry out a trace from C3 to 2/7.

Modifying Another Word

  • technically: The Customer acknowledges that it is technically impracticable to provide a fault free Service and Griffin does not undertake to do so.
  • totally: Natural tho this may be, it is totally impracticable by hand.
  • quite: The life which they are to lead appears to be quite impracticable.
  • almost: In such a war, it is an almost impracticable line for the workers ' party of any single belligerent country.
  • not: A calm look at the whole business says that it is not impracticable providing it gets the support it needs.
  • wholly: It was wholly impracticable for the claimants to have sought to recover the goods from Gold Crown in Chile.

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: For, the idea of a German School for our many compatriots in England had proved impracticable.
  • become: The slope, being inclined almost seventy degrees, the path became impracticable.
  • consider: The first for a level crossing he considered impracticable.
  • find: A uniformity in this respect has often been attempted, but found impracticable.
  • seem: It seemed impracticable to include them all in this space.
  • render: Hence, equality of status between East and West Cameroon in subsequent negotiations was rendered impracticable.