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
The girls are wearing heeled white dance shoes that are defiantly impractical for the city streets, in striking contrast to the robust sneakers that everyone else has on.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it.
—New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025
Unfortunately, some of these tests are impractical and risk causing real-world harm.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
The resulting collection fuses the nostalgic, theatrical, and the slightly impractical into a versatile edit of staples that can be worn in and out of the home.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it.
—New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025
Unfortunately, some of these tests are impractical and risk causing real-world harm.
—Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
The resulting collection fuses the nostalgic, theatrical, and the slightly impractical into a versatile edit of staples that can be worn in and out of the home.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for impractical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impractical
Adjective
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But to borrow Manidis’s framework, the drive to create such a tool conflates useless toil with meaningful labor.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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The rules of grammar were useless now, and never truly rules.—
Sam Lipsyte,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This closeness causes gravitational instability that existing planetary formation models have suggested should result in an environment unsuitable for planet formation.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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They were placed there by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife after being deemed unsuitable for wild release.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That said, while each companion’s abilities bring something to the table, they get downed by enemies a lot, which renders their abilities unusable until they can be revived.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Photos taken immediately after the carpet removal show that the classroom was left in unusable condition, with a portion of the carpet remaining attached to the floor.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Impractical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impractical. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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