impractical
[im-prak-ti-kuh l]
- not practical or useful.
- not capable of dealing with practical matters; lacking sense.
- idealistic.
- impracticable.
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Origin of impractical
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Examples from the Web for impractical
Contemporary Examples
But one gets the sense that this is impractical in the era of Twitter and 24-7 news coverage.
Though Rabinowitz muses that something like this would not only be impractical but also incite severe backlash.
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Du Bois repeatedly defended liberal education against those who saw it as impractical.
Podesta warned that opposition to natural gas is impractical and not grounded in reality.
Harold Berman calls it “shallow, impractical, and offensive.”
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Historical Examples
The remonstrant of 1800 said "indelicate," of 1850 "immodest," of 1900 "impractical."
He found it impractical to remain longer in the stern attempting to scull.
The Harbor of DoubtFrank Williams
No other government had them except in impractical imitations.
Who would take such an impractical view of the world as you do?
The Adventures of Maya the BeeWaldemar Bonsels
This is not an impractical plan, as many women are proving by experience.
The Family and it's MembersAnna Garlin Spencer
impractical
- not practical or workablean impractical solution
- not given to practical matters or gifted with practical skillshe is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work
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Word Origin and History for impractical
adj.
1823, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + practical. Impracticable in the same sense dates from 1670s.
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