impracticable
adjective
not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means.
impracticability
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a word derived from
impracticable.
Example Sentences
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Number theory—the study of patterns in numbers—had long had an aura of abstract impracticability: math for math’s sake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
She glossed over the impracticability of the proposal: It won’t solve highway traffic congestion.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
“But here, think about the impracticability of this – there is no one to serve,” said Lallas, calling the complaint a “fishing expedition.”
From Fox News ● Jul. 29, 2020
That starts with cashmere itself, a fabric whose extravagant associations originate partly in its fundamental impracticability.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2015
The impracticability does not consist so much in this, that no such intense light can be made artificially, as in the circumstance that the illuminating power of light decreases enormously as we recede from it.
From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Aaron David Bernstein
