unpractical

[ uhn-prak-ti-kuhl ]

adjective

1. not practical; impractical; lacking practical usefulness or wisdom.

unpractical

/ ʌnˈpræktɪkəl /

adjective

1. another word for impractical

Derived Forms

• unˈpractically, adverb
• ˌunpractiˈcality, noun

Other Words From

• unprac·ti·cali·ty un·practi·cal·ness noun
• un·practi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unpractical¹

First recorded in 1630–40; un- ¹ + practical

Example Sentences

Part of the problem is that the few polymers that have been used take a long time to settle and solidify, meaning that printing them takes an unpractical amount of time.

From Popular-Science

I had an Irish cook, an honest woman if ever there was one, faithful, and of a religion as sincere as it was unpractical.

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Don Quijote de la Mancha himself could scarcely have made a more pure-intentioned yet more unpractical President.

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She is only just out of the schoolroom, you know, and girls are so unpractical.

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This time the man was an inventor, and of all unpractical and useless things he had patented an appliance for saving life at sea!

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To translate Gozzi with the minute attention to his style which I bestowed upon Cellini would have been unpractical.

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