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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The idea is to enable applications in robotics, wearables, and personal computing that were previously impractical, the company said.
In denying Acuña’s request for a tenured position, the judge argued that the hostility between Acuña and his potential co-workers would make his appointment “both impractical and inappropriate.”
From Los Angeles Times
Some are impractical, such as forcing teams to push the fences back in their ballparks.
Many of these requirements are impractical for frontier AI development.
In rare diseases and advanced cancer, such demands can be impractical, ethically dubious and less informative than carefully analyzed real-world evidence.
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