as in useless
not capable of being put to use or account
the flimsy little toy shovel was cute, but completely impractical for digging up tree stumps
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Recent Examples of impractical
Emma Watson is committing to impractical hiking ’fits.
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
Spicomellus’ armor is totally impractical, and would have been a bit annoying in dense vegetation, for example.
—CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
The company's engineers wrote papers and performed studies that argued SpaceX's plans were impractical.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
United fitting their best player, their most promising academy graduate and a new, £200million ($270m) front three into the same line-up suddenly looks entirely impractical — at least in this system.
—Mark Critchley, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
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Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 29 Aug. 2025
Spicomellus’ armor is totally impractical, and would have been a bit annoying in dense vegetation, for example.
—CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
The company's engineers wrote papers and performed studies that argued SpaceX's plans were impractical.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
United fitting their best player, their most promising academy graduate and a new, £200million ($270m) front three into the same line-up suddenly looks entirely impractical — at least in this system.
—Mark Critchley, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impractical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impractical
Adjective
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Digital fingerprinting collates an array of data from your phone — your IP address, device model and OS, time zone, setup and anything else if can get — to create a unique identifier in aggregate, even if each individual data snippet us useless on its own.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never mind that large language models have so far proven useless at 95% of the companies that have made their workforces try to use them, researchers from MIT recently found.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The concern expressed is that people are turning to AI for mental health advice and do not realize that (presumably) AI is unsuitable for that purpose.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The drastic drop in performance from the 2022 season points to the idea that the current generation of cars is unsuitable for the Briton.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The website is almost unusable.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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The process requires hundreds of delicate manual steps, and any contamination renders a dose unusable.—
Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Impractical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impractical. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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