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impracticable

[ im-prak-ti-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means:

    an impracticable plan.

  2. unsuitable for practical use or purposes, as a device or material.
  3. (of ground, places, etc.) impassable.
  4. (of persons) hard to deal with because of stubbornness, stupidity, etc.


impracticable

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adjective

  1. incapable of being put into practice or accomplished; not feasible
  2. unsuitable for a desired use; unfit
  3. an archaic word for intractable
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Derived Forms

  • ¾±³¾Ëˆ±è°ù²¹³¦³Ù¾±³¦²¹²ú±ô²â, adverb
  • ¾±³¾ËŒ±è°ù²¹³¦³Ù¾±³¦²¹Ëˆ²ú¾±±ô¾±³Ù²â, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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  • ¾±³¾Â·±è°ù²¹³¦î€ƒt¾±Â·³¦²¹Â·²ú±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of impracticable1

First recorded in 1645–55; im- 2 + practicable
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The minister for women and equalities Kemi Badenoch told the Times newspaper it was "impracticable for gender recognition regimes to vary in different parts of the country."

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It states that “any modification must be made in accordance with the donor’s probable intention†and only if the restriction has become “unlawful, impracticable, impossible to achieve, or wasteful.â€

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Although it may seem impracticable, a renegotiation will look more appealing in the decades ahead of us, more so, I suspect, in the face of genuine hardship.

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"It may be impracticable that our distinctively American experiment of individual freedom should go on."

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Critics say her idea of redeploying the ships to block departures is against the law and impracticable.

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