as in impractical
not capable of being put to use or account
the company decided that the proposed reorganization of its operations was unworkable due to high costs
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Recent Examples of unworkable
But in his lengthy post, Trump suggested demands from Democrats to keep the government open were unworkable and more broadly railed against the party’s agenda.
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Brett Samuels, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
Ideas that seemed intriguing in the salons of Paris—ideas like dividing the whole country up into eighty-one uniform squares, each administered as a unit of local government—turned out to be ridiculously unworkable.
—Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Yet that path now looks unworkable.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
But as the demonstration began to wind down, police and protest organizers sparred over the number of arrests as the organizers sought to show that the law was unworkable.
—Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unworkable
Brett Samuels, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
Ideas that seemed intriguing in the salons of Paris—ideas like dividing the whole country up into eighty-one uniform squares, each administered as a unit of local government—turned out to be ridiculously unworkable.
—Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Yet that path now looks unworkable.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
But as the demonstration began to wind down, police and protest organizers sparred over the number of arrests as the organizers sought to show that the law was unworkable.
—Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unworkable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unworkable
Adjective
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Critics lambasted those policies as impractical at best, reckless at worst.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Countach is also famously impractical and a pain to drive, so the next buyer will likely be taking on a more-than-usual stewardship role in terms of old supercars, the service not being to themselves but to the wider community, which gets to look at the Countach rather than operate it.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Pattinson plays the character’s increasingly useless husband.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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My French was useless—I was also considered a tourist by association.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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That wing is usually reserved for prisoners who are considered unsuitable to be kept among the prison’s general population, usually out of fears for their safety.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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But the movie only gives tiny little tastes of 1982 rock culture, and why Nebraska was so comically unsuitable for airplay.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unworkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworkable. Accessed 22 Nov. 2025.
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