impractical
adjective
im·prac·ti·cal
(ˌ)im-ˈprak-ti-kəl 
: not practical: such as
a
: not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect
b
: incapable of dealing sensibly or prudently with practical matters
c
d
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Examples of impractical in a Sentence
Little sports cars are impractical for large families.
He was a dreamy and impractical young man.
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This wall of separation, however, is increasingly impractical in a world where the information from both these entities is required to produce significant gains in operational efficiency and predictive maintenance.
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Julian Durand, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
The requirement that an agency employee supervise night operations is impractical when that employee is flying a plane, which circles thousands of feet above helicopters and has limited visibility into what’s going on below, some of the county chiefs said.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
To deprive a child of all access to the Internet would be draconian and also impractical, given that young people are more tech-savvy than their parents.
—Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Collectively, the announcements are the latest sign that quantum computing has emerged from its infancy and is rapidly progressing toward the development of systems that can reliably perform calculations that would be impractical or impossible to run on classical hardware.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
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Julian Durand, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
The requirement that an agency employee supervise night operations is impractical when that employee is flying a plane, which circles thousands of feet above helicopters and has limited visibility into what’s going on below, some of the county chiefs said.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
To deprive a child of all access to the Internet would be draconian and also impractical, given that young people are more tech-savvy than their parents.
—Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Collectively, the announcements are the latest sign that quantum computing has emerged from its infancy and is rapidly progressing toward the development of systems that can reliably perform calculations that would be impractical or impossible to run on classical hardware.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
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impractical
adjective
im·prac·ti·cal
(ˈ)im-ˈprak-ti-kəl
: not practical: as
a
: not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect
an impractical rule disliked by many
b
: incapable of dealing sensibly with practical matters
c
: impracticable
the new gadgets were complicated and impractical
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