infeasible

adjective

Definition of infeasiblenext
as in impractical

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Recent Examples of infeasible For their part, do politicians and agency leaders like it when their pet projects are assessed by intelligence as unwise or infeasible? — Gregory F. Treverton, The Conversation, 8 June 2026 California’s experience with 2021’s Senate Bill 9, which legalized duplexes on single-family lots, showed that cities responded by adopting additional design standards and minimum lot size requirements, making many projects financially or physically infeasible. — Christina Mojica, Oc Register, 26 May 2026 The team at Mullvad and the researcher who discovered the bug both reported the issue to Google via the Android issue tracker, but Google closed it as infeasible to fix. — Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026 The coalition listed several requests for the transportation department, including to provide detailed structural analyses by engineers experienced in historic bridge rehabilitation to support claims that preservation is infeasible. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 19 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for infeasible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infeasible
  1. impractical
  2. impracticable
  3. impossible
  4. unworkable
  5. unusable
  6. unfeasible
Adjective
  • Their potential applications include modeling advanced materials and chemical reactions, optimizing complex logistics networks and addressing some computational problems that are impractical for today’s systems.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Spreadsheets cannot teach these dynamics, and real-world training may be dangerous, impractical or impossible.
    — Richard Clough, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of impractical
Adjective
  • The Republican appointees said the legal protections apply only in formal immigration proceedings, and would be too impracticable and burdensome to apply at the border.
    — Leah Litman, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Steer clear of impracticable, luxurious purchases that might tempt you.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
Definition of impracticable
Adjective
  • All four getting in is probably impossible; even three Best Picture nominations for a single studio is extremely rare in the modern era.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • And no style is over $100, which honestly feels impossible these days.
    — Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of impossible
Adjective
  • When aggressive payments lead to falling behind elsewhere A debt payoff plan should be challenging enough to make progress without resulting in the remainder of the monthly budget being unworkable.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Or, in mathematics, if a single number were lost, the entirety of mathematical science would be flawed, incomplete, and unworkable.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of unworkable
Adjective
  • At Lincoln Bay, Duke said their elevators sensed water and immediately went to the 10th floor, where they were locked in place and unusable until contractors cleared out the pit below.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Founded in 2022, The Alloy Market makes money by either refining unusable materials and taking a cut, or by listing usable items on their online resale marketplace.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of unusable
Adjective
  • While the city has already greenlit more than 31,000 units over the past decade, according to housing staff, nearly two-thirds of them — over 20,000 homes — determined to be financially unfeasible — remain stuck on paper.
    — Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The solution—cutting spending or raising taxes—is politically unfeasible, especially with elections approaching.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
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“Infeasible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infeasible. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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