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
- 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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