Impracticable Definition
ĭm-prăktĭ-kə-bəl
adjective
Not capable of being carried out in practice.
An impracticable plan.
Webster's New World
Impossible to do or carry out.
Refloating the sunken ship intact proved impracticable because of its fragility.
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Not capable of being used.
An impracticable road.
Webster's New World
Unfit for passage.
Roads impracticable in winter.
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Not capable of being managed or dealt with; intractable.
An impracticable person.
Webster's New World
noun
1867, James Parton, Famous Americans of Recent Times, page 83.
The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables, headed by John Randolph.
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1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude, page 187.
Then there are the gladiators, to whom it is always a battle ; 'tis no matter on which side, they fight for victory; then the heady men, the egotists, the monotones, the steriles, and the impracticables.
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Other Word Forms of Impracticable
Noun
Singular:
impracticable
Plural:
impracticablesOrigin of Impracticable
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From im- + practicable.
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