impracticable

/im'præktikəbl/
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impracticable

The rescue team found the plan to refloat the sunken ship impracticable.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Not capable of being carried out or put into practice: Describes a plan, idea, or task that is impossible to do or achieve in reality, often due to being unrealistic, too difficult, or hindered by circumstances.
    • Not usable or manageable: Can describe a tool, machine, or route that is extremely difficult or impossible to use or navigate.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective:
    • The committee rejected the proposal as completely impracticable.
    • Refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragile condition.
    • The mountain path was impracticable for vehicles after the landslide.
Advanced Usage
  • "to render something impracticable": to make something impossible to carry out.
    • The sudden budget cuts rendered the expansion plan impracticable.
  • Used in formal or technical contexts to describe theoretical ideas that fail in practical application.
    • While the concept is elegant, it is impracticable given current technological constraints.
Variants and Related Words
  • Impracticability (n): The quality or state of being impracticable.
    • The impracticability of the scheme was obvious to everyone.
  • Impractically (adv): In an impracticable manner.
    • The system was impractically complex to operate.
Synonyms
  • Unfeasible: Not possible to do easily or conveniently.
  • Unworkable: Not capable of functioning or being carried out successfully.
  • Impossible: Not able to occur, exist, or be done.
Antonyms
  • Practicable: Able to be done or put into practice successfully.
  • Feasible: Possible to do easily or conveniently.
  • Workable: Capable of functioning or being carried out successfully.
Related Phrases
  • Deemed impracticable: Judged to be impossible to carry out.
    • The mission was deemed impracticable and was abandoned.
  • Prove impracticable: To be shown to be impossible in practice.
    • His ambitious design proved impracticable during the testing phase.
impracticable

The rescue team found the plan to refloat the sunken ship impracticable.

Adjective
  1. not capable of being carried out or put into practice
    • refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility
    • a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances

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