IMPRACTICABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impracticable mean? 

• IMPRACTICABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMPRACTICABLE has 1 sense:

1. not capable of being carried out or put into practice

  Familiarity information: IMPRACTICABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRACTICABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not capable of being carried out or put into practice

Synonyms:

impracticable; infeasible; unfeasible; unworkable

Context example:

a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances

Similar:

impossible (not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with)

Derivation:

impracticability; impracticableness (the quality of not being usable)

 Context examples 

I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself, and found it impracticable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I meant to become her governess once more, but I soon found this impracticable; my time and cares were now required by another—my husband needed them all.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He really felt conscientiously vexed on the occasion; for the very exertion to which he had limited the performance of his promise to his father was by this arrangement rendered impracticable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his properties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus, while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Tundra grass was impracticable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But I felt she was a little impracticable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The proposed tea-drinkings being quite impracticable, I compounded with Miss Lavinia for permission to visit every Saturday afternoon, without detriment to my privileged Sundays.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)