adjective
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not practical or workable
an impractical solution
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not given to practical matters or gifted with practical skills
he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work
Other Word Forms
- impracticality noun
- impractically adverb
- impracticalness noun
Etymology
Origin of impractical
Example Sentences
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Many promising natural compounds exist only in extremely small quantities within plants, making them expensive or impractical to produce using traditional laboratory methods.
From Science Daily
While effective for small experiments, these systems are impractical for the massive number of optical channels needed in future quantum computers.
From Science Daily
One key conclusion of the research is that mining undifferentiated asteroids -- the primordial remnants of the solar system's formation considered the progenitor bodies of chondritic meteorites -- remains impractical for now.
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New research now shows that the process can also work in reverse, with quantum signals sent from Earth up to a satellite, an approach long considered impractical.
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Maintenance is also “impractical,” they noted, which will likely mean satellites will need better, more expensive hardware to make data centers viable.
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