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
- 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
- abstract
- absurd
- beyond
- chimerical
- contrary to reason
- cureless
- futile
- hardly possible
- hopeless
- hundred-to-one
- idealistic
- illogical
- impassable
- impervious
- impossible
- impracticable
- impractical
- improbable
- inaccessible
- inapplicable
- inconceivable
- inefficacious
- inexecutable
- infeasible
- inoperable
- insurmountable
- irrealizable
- irreparable
- ivory-tower
- no-go
- no-way
- no-win
- nonfunctional
- nonviable
- not a prayer
- otherworldly
- out of the question
- preposterous
- quixotic
- romantic
- speculative
- starry-eyed
- theoretical
- too much
- unachievable
- unattainable
- unbusinesslike
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unnegotiable
- unobtainable
- unreal
- unrealizable
- unreasonable
- unrecoverable
- unserviceable
- unthinkable
- unusable
- useless
- visionary
- way out
- wild
- won't fly
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