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adj. - Not capable of being carried out or put into practice.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility
  • Adjective : an impracticable plan
  • His active brain, stimulated by a desire for wealth, and an egotism which might be called impracticable, wrought out original plans of farming without number.
  • Men unaccustomed to reason and researches, think every enterprise impracticable, which is extended beyond common effects, or comprises many intermediate operations.
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