infeasible
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- infeasibility noun
- infeasibleness noun
Etymology
Origin of infeasible
Explanation
Infeasible things are impossible, or too complicated to actually be done. Your idea of staging a city-wide game of Capture the Flag is probably infeasible. After several frustrating attempts at walking your cat around the neighborhood on a leash, you might finally decide the idea is infeasible — it's just not going to work the way you imagined. When something is feasible, it's entirely possible. Feasible comes from the Old French faisable, "that may be done," from the Latin root facere, "to make or do." When you add the "not" prefix in-, you get infeasible.
Example Sentences
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The FDA already requires randomized controlled trials prior to approving vaccines and most medicines—except when they would be unethical or infeasible, as is the case for rare diseases and terminal cancers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
Smith, speaking to The Times, stressed that the new guidelines only apply to situations where the Fire Department has deemed evacuations infeasible.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025
Electronic tagging can harm whale health, and it is infeasible to continuously monitor more than a small fraction of the population that way.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2024
Gillian Paull, from Frontier Economics, says the increase is likely to be "challenging", as providers face financial strains and difficulty recruiting staff, "but not infeasible".
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023
Page 71 This is not a line-for-line translation; that the author found infeasible.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Emerson, Nathaniel Bright
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