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impractical
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Word definitions for impractical in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" [ant: practical ] not practical or realizable; speculative; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + practical . Impracticable in the same sense dates from 1670s.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not practical; impracticable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impractical \Im*prac"ti*cal\, a. Not practical.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB totally ▪ Silk is always wonderful too, if totally impractical . ▪ The complexities of a modern developed economy, however, make barter totally impractical for most purposes. ▪ Simply putting them all into a large ...
Usage examples of impractical.
There was some thought given to extending the Anchors far enough to build such a border, but we have found this, for a variety of reasons you in engineering might understand, to be impractical.
The winged serpent is an Egyptian sunsymbol, mac Art, and far older than the winged disc of Atun that the saintly if impractical Pharoah Akhenatun caused to be worshiped.
Knowing she had no other choice, she wrapped two thin cotton cloths around her heels and attempted to place her sore feet into the once fashionable, but now totally impractical, highheeled boots.
Syrian gunners and their wives did not curse him for a fussbudget and mock him for an impractical philosopher.
To explore her excited, impractical, and as harebrained as possible naked in his bed.
Unfortunately the old woman seemed to take no food she did not gather or trap herself, and while he contemplated leaving a steaming pie at the door to her house, made of ripe apples and lethal baneberries, he dismissed it soon enough as impractical.
Even if the c-v drive were feasible, the emissions could make it highly impractical in settled space, which would rule out its use as far as Helva was concerned.
Seaside first, although it was certain that, barring mishap, the raft would sail in long before the linkmen could get there on foot, toting their nearly empty and frightfully impractical baskets.
But it was still an impractical, misdesigned creature, a one-of-a-kind on a world with 1560 races.
Still, we cannot turn Flutic topsyturvy for the sake of possibly impractical speculation.
Unfortunately the old woman seemed to take no food she did not gather or trap herself, and while he contemplated leaving a steaming pie at the door to her house, made of ripe apples and lethal baneberries, he dismissed it soon enough as impractical.
Diehl clenched his teeth to the point of almost cracking some expensive bridgework, but managed to suppress an answer that would have been impractical and unprofitable.
Susannah could point to the page on which it was modelled, and she could explain that all the accessories were identical too, from the classic impractical two-tone sling-back Chanel shoes, to the double strand of real matched pearls.
Neither a conniving and impractical sorcerer nor a grief-stricken madman was fit for the job.
He, the impractical butterfingers, who couldn't even sharpen a pencil properly, assumed the air of a man who knows something about repairing tin drums.