as in impractical
not capable of being put to use or account
an impracticable plan for dealing with the recent intrusion of bears in the suburban neighborhood
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Recent Examples of impracticable
Sanders’ proclamations state that conducting an election to meet that requirement was both impracticable and unduly burdensome, without further explaining her reasoning.
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John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
One is a single state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, which would be wonderful but is simply impracticable given attitudes on both sides.
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Foreign Affairs,
9 Oct. 2025
Few school districts will be able to afford costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to administering impracticable notice and opt-out systems for individual students.
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Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
But his chairman had requested the impracticable.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impracticable
John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
One is a single state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews, which would be wonderful but is simply impracticable given attitudes on both sides.
—
Foreign Affairs,
9 Oct. 2025
Few school districts will be able to afford costly litigation over opt-out rights or to divert resources to administering impracticable notice and opt-out systems for individual students.
—
Stephen L. Carter,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
But his chairman had requested the impracticable.
—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
10 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impracticable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impracticable
Adjective
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The trouble was that their official away shirts provided by Le Coq Sportif were made of a very heavy fabric, wildly impractical given the game kicked off at noon under the blazing Mexico City sun.
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Those experiments were once widely dismissed as impractical, and Joby has faced similar skepticism.
Adjective
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Using that quartet in what is essentially a useless game would be playing with fire.
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Maps had become useless; streets and landmarks washed away or hidden.
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“Impracticable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impracticable. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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