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unworkable

(ʌnwɜːʳkəbəl)
adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If you describe something such as a plan, law, or system as unworkable, you believe that it cannot be successful.
There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
Washington is unhappy with the peace plan which it views as unworkable.
Synonyms: impracticable, unfeasible, unachievable, impossible More Synonyms of unworkable

unworkable in British English

(ʌnˈwɜːkəbəl)
adjective
not practicable or feasible

Examples of 'unworkable' in a sentence
unworkable

An idea that may also prove unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Investigations at the site found that key elements of the automatic hose system had been unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In the next decade this distinction proved unworkable.
Hebblethwaite, Peter Paul VI - The First Modern Pope (1993)
In the long run this discrimination proved unworkable.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
Economists and tax experts have said that the plan is unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
But some officials say that introducing a system allowing discounts for some offences and not others will quickly become unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She said that she had worn the dress after the outfit she first chose proved unworkable with the weather screen.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It becomes unworkable unless you bring up the standards... politically there is ahuge problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is a great idea in theory, but it is unworkable in practice.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In short, this proposal is unworkable in the real world.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But negotiations with the ISPs became gridlocked when the providers called the proposals unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
That could prove unworkable should Labour oppose the line.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But the logistics of carrying bees inside army vehicles moving around Afghanistan have proved unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The Tasmanian small business council said the plan was unworkable.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Government priority became a foolhardy, unworkable plan for identity cards rather than ground rebuilding.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The energy giants have played hardball - and a scheme to make them fund the handouts has proved unworkable.
The Sun (2008)
By the 1920s, this system had become unworkable.
John Foot Calcio: A History of Italian Football (2006)
This proposal is unfair, unworkable, highly illiberal and probably open to legal challenge.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Mind planet Mercury helps you work out all the details in a plan that seemed unworkable - and now it could really take off.
The Sun (2011)

In other languages
unworkable

British English: unworkable ADJECTIVE
If a plan, law, or system is unworkable, it cannot be successful.
There is the strong possibility that such cooperation will prove unworkable.
  • American English: unworkable
  • Brazilian Portuguese: inviável
  • Chinese: 不可行的
  • European Spanish: impracticable
  • French: irréalisable
  • German: undurchführbar
  • Italian: inattuabile
  • Japanese: 実行不可能な
  • Korean: 실행 불가능한
  • European Portuguese: inviável
  • Latin American Spanish: impracticable

(adjective) 
Definition
impractical and certain to fail
Washington is unhappy with the peace plan, which it views as unworkable.
Synonyms
impracticable
Such measures would be highly impracticable.
unfeasible
unachievable
impossible
You shouldn't promise what's impossible.
out of the question
Is a tax increase still out of the question?
unattainable

Additional synonyms

in the sense of impossible
Definition
not able to be done or to happen
You shouldn't promise what's impossible.
Synonyms
unachievable,
hopeless,
out of the question,
vain,
unthinkable,
inconceivable,
far-fetched,
unworkable,
implausible,
unattainable,
unobtainable,
beyond you,
not to be thought of
in the sense of out of the question
Definition
beyond consideration
Is a tax increase still out of the question?
Synonyms
impossible,
unthinkable,
inconceivable,
not on (informal),
hopeless,
unimaginable,
unworkable,
unattainable,
unobtainable,
not feasible,
impracticable,
unachievable,
unrealizable,
not worth considering,
not to be thought of

Nearby words of
unworkable

  • unwise
  • unwitting
  • unwonted
  • unworkable
  • unworldly
  • unworthy
  • unwritten

Synonyms of 'unworkable'

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