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unpracticable

[uhn-prak-ti-kuh-buhl]

adjective

  1. impracticable.



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Other Word Forms

  • unpracticability noun
  • unpracticableness noun
  • unpracticably adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of unpracticable1

First recorded in 1640–50; un- 1 + practicable
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Example Sentences

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I pray as sincerely for the king's happy and long life as any man alive; and for me to go about to raise a rebellion, which I looked upon as so wicked and unpracticable, is unlikely.

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In an era dominated by such orthodox craftsmen as Tennyson and Wordsworth, Hopkins' innovations were baffling even to his few admirers�"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore.

Well, there is something a little too flimsy and unpracticable about that word Utopia.

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For farther, what city would ever submit to the rigorous laws of Plato, to the severe injunctions of Aristotle? or the more unpracticable tenets of Socrates?

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To shut off a backward people from all contact with the outside world by a kind of blockade is not only unpracticable, but is artificially to deny them the chances of education and progress.

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