impracticable
Speech parts
1. impracticable - Noun
2. impracticable - Adjective
3. impracticable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
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How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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.
The ideology of Islam is as practicable or as impracticable as we Muslims choose to make it.
Armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable.
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.