unaccomplishableadj.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adjective]
impossible1340
unfeasible1527
infeasible1533
unablec1540
unperformable1583
unpracticeable1588
unfeasable1628
uneffectible1646
unpracticable1650
unoperable1652
unaccomplishable1675
imprestable1683
imperformable1693
impracticable1696
unexecutable1794
ineffectible1806
inexecutable1833
unworkable1839
impractical1865
undoable1865
impos.1924
1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. i. 13 It must be exceedingly bitter, to be thus condemned to endless unaccomplishable desires.
1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxvi. 126 Or ever Nimrod's race Their unaccomplishable work began.
1871 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies iii, in Wks. I. 161 At these visions of theirs we have mocked, and held them for idle and vain, unreal and unaccomplishable.
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