unpracticable

[ uhn-prak-ti-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. impracticable.

Other Words From

• unprac·ti·ca·bili·ty un·practi·ca·ble·ness noun
• un·practi·ca·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unpracticable¹

First recorded in 1640–50; un- ¹ + practicable

Example Sentences

I pray as sincerely for the king's happy and long life as any man alive; and for me to go about to raise a rebellion, which I looked upon as so wicked and unpracticable, is unlikely.

From Project Gutenberg

In an era dominated by such orthodox craftsmen as Tennyson and Wordsworth, Hopkins' innovations were baffling even to his few admirers�"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, there is something a little too flimsy and unpracticable about that word Utopia.

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For farther, what city would ever submit to the rigorous laws of Plato, to the severe injunctions of Aristotle? or the more unpracticable tenets of Socrates?

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To shut off a backward people from all contact with the outside world by a kind of blockade is not only unpracticable, but is artificially to deny them the chances of education and progress.

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