impracticableim‧prac‧ti‧ca‧ble /ɪmˈpræktɪkəbəl/ adjective formal - Thatcher called the plan for a single European currency impracticable.
- A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
- He had explained that the amount of paperwork involved made it impracticable, but he was sure they hadn't believed him.
- Laws had even been passed in some authoritarian societies limiting families to two children, but their enforcement had proved impracticable.
- Owen's own first chosen vehicle, the co-operative community, had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable.
- The operation would be totally impracticable.
- There is a point beyond which it becomes impracticable to continue.
- Total calibration against the full range of particle size combinations and particle shapes is impracticable.
nounpracticalpracticalitiespracticality ≠ impracticalitypracticability ≠ impracticabilityadjectivepracticable ≠ impracticablepractical ≠ impracticaladverbpractically ≠ impracticallypracticably ≠ impracticably