as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
an unrealizable dream for a severely impoverished nation
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Recent Examples of unrealizable
One red flag for me is that both HyImpulse and Rocket Factory Augsburg have business cases built around 50 commercial launches a year, which seems completely unrealizable, both from a demand standpoint as well as the exceptional technical capability needed to reach such a cadence.
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Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2023
Hence, visiting the galactic center in a spacecraft powered with Bussard ramjet within a lifetime is unrealizable.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2022
Judging from the Biden administration's first 100 days -- an unrealistic and unrealizable metric by which to judge a presidency -- there's no danger of that happening.
—Aaron David Miller, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
Your partner or a close friend distract you a bit with unrealizable goals.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
The fact that Kingelez’s projects are unrealizable shields them from any nattering rationality.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
That was a signature promise and was probably the most flagrantly unrealizable promise in all of American presidential politics, the idea that Mexico would pay for this wall.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
The actual proposals in King’s article are a convenient mix of the inoffensive and the unrealizable, and therefore are not particularly concerning.
—Max Bloom, National Review, 20 July 2017
Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2023
Hence, visiting the galactic center in a spacecraft powered with Bussard ramjet within a lifetime is unrealizable.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2022
Judging from the Biden administration's first 100 days -- an unrealistic and unrealizable metric by which to judge a presidency -- there's no danger of that happening.
—Aaron David Miller, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
Your partner or a close friend distract you a bit with unrealizable goals.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
The fact that Kingelez’s projects are unrealizable shields them from any nattering rationality.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
That was a signature promise and was probably the most flagrantly unrealizable promise in all of American presidential politics, the idea that Mexico would pay for this wall.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
The actual proposals in King’s article are a convenient mix of the inoffensive and the unrealizable, and therefore are not particularly concerning.
—Max Bloom, National Review, 20 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrealizable
Adjective
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Her latest volume, the National Book Award winner Something About Living, is full of impossible cohesions, offering this straight-on singularity of body and mind to birds, grammars, and architectures.—
Cindy Juyoung Ok
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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The exponential growth of data from observability and monitoring has made human analysis nearly impossible.—
Peter High,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Those who are convinced they’re trapped stay helpless and hopeless.—
Amy Morin,
CNBC,
12 June 2025
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In a world where the powerful increasingly act with impunity, taking fictional villains to task makes sense, a form of Hollywood wish fulfillment for those who feel stuck or hopeless.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
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“Unrealizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrealizable. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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