Synonyms for impracticable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : im-prak-ti-kuh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpræk tɪ kə bəl


Définition of impracticable

Origin :
  • "incapable of being done," 1670s, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + practicable. Earlier in a sense of "impassable" (1650s).
  • adj unrealistic
Example sentences :
  • That mountain wall, impracticable as it seems, we have to scale.
  • Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • The advice was good, but in the present temper of the army it was felt to be impracticable.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
  • He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • Flight was humiliating and dreadful, but to remain in England was impracticable.
  • Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
  • The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
  • But very soon it was found that such tactics were, in the main, impracticable.
  • Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby
  • They dismissed me as impracticable, and made me garde-chasse; and they were right, too.
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • So sudden, so impetuous was the encounter, all effort to prevent it was impracticable.
  • Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
  • This was impracticable without the support of the French court.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird
  • Perhaps I was asking what was impracticable, and it is well for me that it was so.
  • Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman

Antonyms for impracticable

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