1. impracticable - Noun
2. impracticable - Adjective
3. impracticable - Adjective Satellite
Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.
Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.
Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHow many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! Archimedes
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. François de La Rochefoucauld
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable. William Hazlitt
The ideology of Islam is as practicable or as impracticable as we Muslims choose to make it. Muhammad Asad
Armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. Woodrow Wilson
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. Richard Cobden