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Meanings of infeasible in English

Not capable of being carried out or put into practice.

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Examples for "impracticable"
Examples for "impracticable"
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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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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
Usage of infeasible in English
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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
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Long-term storage of platelets is infeasible due to platelet activation at low temperatures.
Pubmed
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But the leap from diamond dunce to diamond don isn't infeasible.
The Irish Times
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To be sure, this strategy would be both strategically infeasible and likely militarily impossible.
The Guardian
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Many existing approaches are either computationally infeasible or inappropriate for data of this size.
Pubmed
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Absolute abrogation of administrative authority is infeasible and ill advised.
Ebony
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It's infeasible for it to just up and disappear.
Wired
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Manual delineation of separate pathologies is infeasible in large studies of stroke that include thousands of patients.
Pubmed
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Such a requirement, however, is technologically infeasible.
Wired
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But that option is now politically infeasible.
Reuters
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Airbnb objected to the latter two provisions, arguing in court that the requirements were unconstitutional and technologically infeasible.
Wired
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Application of MG methods can be computationally demanding (especially for large pedigrees), making genomewide scans practically infeasible.
Pubmed
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For a while Britain's scientists did not consider calling for a lockdown because they assumed it was politically infeasible.
The economist
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Extending it indefinitely is infeasible.
Reuters
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