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Meanings of impracticable in English

Not capable of being carried out or put into practice.

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Examples for "unworkable"
Examples for "unworkable"
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Restricting traffic to specific destinations is unworkable, especially in large enterprise networks.
Reuters
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Canada's military says the Liberals' insistence that combat missions end is unworkable.
Reuters
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The fact that this would be unworkable did not occur to anybody.
The Irish Times
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Campaigners against Scottish independence say it would be unrealistic, costly and unworkable.
Reuters
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Duncan Smith's universal credit has been unworkable and unravelling for some time.
The Guardian
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He needed professional help to wean him away from his unfeasible dream.
The Irish Times
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Even though it's politically unfeasible that that would ever happen, I think.
The new yorker
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She has since found completing the study unfeasible and declined to comment.
The Guardian
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Historically, progressive ideas are at first always dismissed as unfeasible, he says.
Radio NZ
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The idea of counterattacking was unfeasible while he dogged her like this.
The skein of lament
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Taking land back directly from landed heirs of slaveowners is politically infeasible.
Ebony
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Note that Arrow adopts feasibility, but also wants to impose infeasible conditions.
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
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This is not a line-for-line translation; that the author found infeasible.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
4
Long-term storage of platelets is infeasible due to platelet activation at low temperatures.
Pubmed
5
But the leap from diamond dunce to diamond don isn't infeasible.
The Irish Times
Usage of impracticable in English
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In sum, this new approach is logical, potentially helpful and probably impracticable.
Reuters
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The very physical scope of the undertakings made the old methods impracticable.
Masters of Space / Morse and the Telegraph; Thompson and the Cab...
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A distribution to the people is impracticable and unjust in other respects.
State of the Union Addresses
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Discomfort increased to a certain pitch; locomotion about the saloon became impracticable.
As It Was in the Beginning
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It surprises me that you should harbor such wild and impracticable ideas.
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
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I am in hopes it is not to be abandoned as impracticable.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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In a land so wealthy the programme is not impracticable, though severe.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
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Her advice was at once childish and wise; sometimes sensible, sometimes impracticable.
The Two Guardians / or, Home in This World
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Double-headed matches are impracticable, according to the Tobacco and Matches Control Board.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917
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To be represented in Parliament was utterly impracticable, and everybody knew it.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
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The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
The Federalist Papers
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The scheme was not impracticable as the Hohenstauffen were afterwards to prove.
Medieval Europe
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To declare an untried scheme impracticable might be an error of rashness.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
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But the former supposition is impracticable, and therefore the latter is dutiful.
Notes on the Apocalypse
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But in Canada, as the intendant explained, this arrangement was utterly impracticable.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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Besides, your plan is impracticable and the women will not support it.
Jailed for Freedom
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