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
As the rest of the island seems impracticably swampy, this checked our reconnoissance; but there can be little doubt the rebels are evacuating.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax nor impracticably rigid.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson
The topic is treated forcibly, without the mannerism frequent among dissenters, and the rules of life enforced are not impracticably rigid.’ p. 125He has also published several sermons; ‘Christ, the Spirit of Christianity,’ is one.
From The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Men were absurd in many ways; lovably like Jasper, impracticably like her father, odiously like that grotesquely supine creature in the chair.
From 'Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad
