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Antonyms for unworkable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : wur-kuh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜr kə bəl



Definition of unworkable

Origin :
  • 1540s, from work (v.) + -able. Related: Workably.
  • adj impossible
  • adj impracticable
Example sentences :
  • The starboard boats were unworkable owing to the list to port.
  • Extract from : « The Beach of Dreams » by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • She had split her rudder-post so as to make her unworkable, and now we have her in tow.
  • Extract from : « Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack » by Elisha Kent Kane
  • He found it impossible, unworkable, and therefore not beautiful.
  • Extract from : « The Hearts of Men » by H. Fielding
  • The Palmer diggings are now deserted, as they are said to be unworkable.
  • Extract from : « Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea. » by W. D. Pitcairn
  • Conscription in Ireland would be "impracticable, unworkable and impossible."
  • Extract from : « John Redmond's Last Years » by Stephen Gwynn
  • This is no doubt a remedy for some of the evils of an unworkable proposal.
  • Extract from : « A Leap in the Dark » by A.V. Dicey
  • The "economy of the heap" (tas) appears to Reclus, at any rate in the province of agriculture, to be unworkable.
  • Extract from : « Anarchism » by E. V. Zenker
  • The constitution was unworkable and the governing authorities were mutually hostile.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 » by Various
  • No one probably wished to continue a system which had long proved itself obsolete and unworkable.
  • Extract from : « History of Holland » by George Edmundson
  • The alchemical explanation was superficial, theoretical, in the wrong meaning of that word, and unworkable.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry » by M. M. Pattison Muir

Synonyms for unworkable

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