Refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an impracticable plan. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.] Reference
Men unaccustomed to reason and researches, think every enterprise impracticable, which is extended beyond common effects, or comprises many intermediate operations. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV] Reference
After a while such words as "impracticable" and "impossible" lose their absoluteness and become only synonyms for the relatively difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
For a particular prior period, it is "impracticable" to apply a change in an accounting policy if •. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Where, among the wooden fowls and "impracticable" flagons, were to be seen very imposing pasties and flasks of champaigne, littered together in most admirable disorder. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
When it is "impracticable" to apply a change in policy retrospectively, the entity applies the change to the earliest period to which it is possible to apply the change. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"impracticable" when the entity cannot apply it after making every effort to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"impracticable," Sir DONALD MACLEAN revealed himself as a diligent student of a recent notorious book. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18] Reference
"impracticable" for a particular prior period, the circumstances that led to the existence of that condition and a description of how and from when the error has been corrected. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Exaggerated individuality makes a man impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
On an iPhone 3GS, audio delays made the calls impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook Phone Call App Lets You Phone Friends For Free] Reference
But if she could, nature pronounces the project impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Secession was illogical as well as impracticable; it was revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Under such conditions even the district school was impracticable or inaccessible. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
To carry much provision or furniture through a pathless wilderness was impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Then the sea began suddenly to retreat, so that landing at this point became impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
City road, but the continually increasing force of the enemy showed this to be impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
A hundred devices ran swiftly through my mind, and each device was dismissed as impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Plato's Republic is obviously impracticable, for its author had turned away in despair from existing politics. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
Marching across this country in the face of an enemy was impossible; navigating it proved equally impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"This system is impracticable and just locks up patients in the hospital," Meyerson told CMS officials last month. From Wordnik.com. [Medicare rules give full hospital benefits only to those with 'inpatient' status] Reference
In a few days rain began to fall, and the mountain roads by which our supplies came were fast growing impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
All things considered, the dirigible is regarded as an impracticable acquisition to a fleet, except in the eyes of the. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
No matter how impracticable it might appear to others, he invariably perceived a means to circumvent its difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
While this process is satisfactory in calm weather, it is impracticable in heavy winds, which are likely to spring up suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
In this he failed, and as soon as I was notified that it was impracticable to reach Fair Oaks by passing between the works and the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Territory, either through the Willamette Valley, or (if this route should prove to be impracticable) by the valley of the Des Chutes. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayous was abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
This legislator must be acknowledged to have possessed great abilities and merit; yet his fine-spun system proved in effect useless and impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
But as the only son grew and his charms multiplied, as the evidence of his gifts became manifest, the impracticable father let slip all personal ambition. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
In the great majority of cases, however, the site selected was unsuitable for such a purpose, and the mode of culture adopted impracticable and inefficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
In this report, which deals exhaustively with the history, construction and achievements of airships, such an invasion is described as fantastic and impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
We have already observed, that the laws and regulations even of the wisest men, founded on principles of speculation, have often proved to be foreign and impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
In a council of war it was judged imprudent and impracticable to carry large ships up such a river without the most skilful pilots, and therefore they returned to New England. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
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