| 单词 | impractical |
| 释义 | impractical (once / 6925 pages) adj Something impractical is difficult or impossible to achieve. It might sound like a great idea, but it's not going to happen. It's just not practical. Impractical ideas make no sense or just can’t be done. Heels so high you have a fish swimming in them are cool, but very impractical. Trying to drive from New York to California in four hours, which could never happen, is impractical. Something impractical is not likely to work. Practical ideas are feasible, but impractical ideas are based on wishful thinking. When someone tells you an idea is impractical, she’s saying, "Get real." WORD FAMILYimpractical: impracticality, impractically+/impracticability: impracticabilities/impracticable: impracticability, impracticableness, impracticably/impracticality: impracticalities/practicability: practicabilities/practicable: impracticable, practicability, practicableness, practicably/practical: impractical, practicality, practically/practicality: practicalities/practice: practicable, practical, practiced, practices, practicing/practiced: unpracticed USAGE EXAMPLESSo let’s look at four impractical financial moves versus the real life practicality of year-end checklist items: Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) They rejected the popular-vote method, characterizing it as impractical, if not outright dangerous. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) But Edmund King, president of the AA, called the proposal "fairly impractical". BBC(Dec 10, 2016) 1adj not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work an impractical solution Syn|Ant impossible not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheadedfoolish; totally unsound meshuga, meshugga, meshugge, meshuggeneh, meshuggenersenseless; crazy quixotic, romantic, wild-eyednot sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic unfunctionalnot related to or suitable for everyday needs or activities unwieldydifficult to work or manipulate unrealisticnot realistic practical concerned with actual use or practice concretecapable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary possiblecapable of happening or existing applicative, applicatoryreadily applicable or practical functionaldesigned for or adapted to a function or use interoperableable to exchange and use information matter-of-fact, pragmatic, pragmaticalconcerned with practical matters operable, practicableusable for a specific purpose serviceableintended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration unimaginativedealing only with concrete facts workingadequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something realisticaware or expressing awareness of things as they really are serviceableready for service or able to give long service 2adj not practical or realizable; speculative Syn Laputan, airy, visionary, windy utopian characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection |
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