Impracticable
[ɪm'præktɪkəb(ə)l] or [ɪm'præktɪkəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not capable of being carried out or put into practice; 'refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility'; 'a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances' .
Typist: Louis--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.
(a.) Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.
(a.) Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Impossible, unfeasible, not practicable.[2]. Hard to deal with, hard to get along with.[3]. Impassable (as a road).
Typist: Maura
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PRACTICABLE]
Typist: Ursula
Definition
adj. not able to be done: unmanageable: stubborn.—ns. Imprac′ticability Imprac′ticableness.—adv. Imprac′ticably.
Checker: Maisie
Examples
- Is this ideal at all the worse for being impracticable? Plato. The Republic.
- He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I could only do this on foot, as the mass of ruin was impracticable for a horse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Frantic and impracticable girl! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By its means communication can be established between points where it is impracticable to extend wires. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Secession was illogical as well as impracticable; it was revolution. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At present it is impracticable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But I felt she was a little impracticable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Professor Barlow's Demonstration that Telegraphy was Impracticable. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is painful, I allow, destructive, impracticable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When a professor says that socialism is impracticable he begs the question, for that amounts to assuming that the point at issue is already settled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Saying which he went out in disdain; and the landlord, having no one to reply upon, found it impracticable to pursue the subject. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Marching across this country in the face of an enemy was impossible; navigating it proved equally impracticable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I endeavoured therefore to sooth and soften her mind; and it was not until after many endeavours that I gave up the task as impracticable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He replied that it was impracticable, because the enemy had substantially the same line across the neck of land that General Butler had. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They found in practice that their plan of raising the plane like a kite was impracticable, and that the wind was not strong enough to support it at a proper angle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It being impracticable to carry steam or the steam engine to the bottom of the mine for work there, compressed air is there employed, which is compressed by a steam engine up at the mouth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- To carry coal for fuel and water for steam would be impracticable for most motor cars. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit, and rendered a direct attack impracticable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This statute, therefore, rendered it almost impracticable for a poor man to gain a new settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Thomson made the objection that it was impracticable, and that it would be impossible to supplant steam. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is quite obvious that such a system would be commercially impracticable where small units, similar to gas jets, were employed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But the circumstances under which she had regained her freedom rendered all recourse to such means as these simply impracticable. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It angered him to perceive that Rosamond's mind was wandering over impracticable wishes instead of facing possible efforts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The plan was laughed at by many as impracticable, but it was attended with complete success. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I showed them my plans, and the unanimous decision of the engineers was that it was absolutely and utterly impracticable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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