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impracticable

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[ US /ˌɪmˈpɹæktɪkəbəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpɹˈæktɪkəbə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not capable of being carried out or put into practice
    refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility
    a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances

How To Use impracticable In A Sentence

  • Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
  • The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable.
  • The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards … I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. Think Progress » Church Uses Marquee To Speak Out Against Beck: ‘Sorry Mr Beck, Jesus Preached Social Justice’
  • After a while such words as "impracticable" and "impossible" lose their absoluteness and become only synonyms for the relatively difficult. Humanly Speaking
  • Here and there a more or less circular space has been swept clear, and on each space a batch of skaters whirl and attitudinize, the uncleared interspaces of snow-covered, impracticable ice given up to miscellaneous loafers. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • The damage it would cause makes the idea utterly impracticable.
  • It would be impracticable for each member to be consulted on every occasion.
  • Distributism is not an economic system, as is Capitalism, this is true, and for this reason it is often attacked as "impracticable," but it is an attitude, developed by Catholics and fostered by Catholics not individualistic Protestants, and it seems much more in line with the Catholic Faith. Distributism Vs. Laissez-faire Capitalism
  • Express authorization or, if that is impossible or impracticable, variation of the banking contract, seems to be the best avenue open to the bank.
  • B. Kaskey, Bellcomm, Inc., gave NASA Apollo Program Director Samuel C. Phillips three reasons why an AS - 204 rescue of or rendezvous with a biosatellite would be impracticable.
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