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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That suggests 2014 may have been a tipping point beyond which returning to normal wet-dry cycles may be impossible on human timescales.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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Humanity Protocol, valued at over a billion dollars, uses palm scans to confirm identity so impersonation becomes almost impossible.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Measures included depression using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D), blood tests for 76 inflammatory biomarkers, and symptoms broken down into cognitive-affective (e.g., feeling hopeless), somatic (e.g., poor sleep, fatigue), and anhedonia (loss of pleasure) clusters.—
Paul McClure
August 09,
New Atlas,
9 Aug. 2025
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Amid the callous acts and hopeless rage of these kids—who are resourceful enough to orchestrate a high-speed heist but too disaffected for much else—a supernatural eeriness surfaces through word of mysterious lights in the sky and missing citizens.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Unrealizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrealizable. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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