impracticable
adjective
not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means.
impracticably
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a word derived from
impracticable.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps she just feels the need for change, a desire that can come on suddenly and impracticably and is often most satisfying when difficult.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2017
Unless the crepe is prepared thick and cut into fairly short lengths, it will not bear its own weight at higher temperatures; and if it is made thick, drying is impracticably prolonged.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
He was just as impracticably courteous as his father and Lady Price shrugged her shoulders and hoped.
From The Pillars of the House, V1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
His religion has nothing in it enthusiastick or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly skeptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
Well, now and then one, whom Nature makes so impracticably simple, truthful and faithful, that the worst possible influence can't destroy it.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
