impracticable
adjective
not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means.
impracticableness
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a word derived from
impracticable.
Example Sentences
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Social embarrassments arise not from the uncertainty and impracticableness of the path, but from the crossways of choice and the perplexity of the scholastic ass between his two bundles of hay.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
It is better to bear the burden of impracticableness, than to stifle conviction and to pare away principle until it becomes more hollowness and triviality.
From On Compromise by John Morley
Conflict has never arisen on the ethical sayings of Jesus, which, making allowance for the impracticableness of a few, place him high among the sages of antiquity.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
Every day or two he had some new expedient for getting the schooner off in the spring; though all who heard them were perfectly convinced of their impracticableness.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper
Mrs. Falconer was too well aware of the impracticableness of her daughter's temper to tell her upon this occasion the whole truth, even if her own habits would have permitted her to be sincere.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Maria Edgeworth
