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impractical

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1. impractical - Adjective

2. impractical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not practical.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. Smedley Butler

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. Martin Luther King Jr.

In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

John Parsons: What about the women who want babies now and in 10 years won't be able to have babies? Rather impractical don't you think? Margaret Sanger

A malfunction of this type can be cured only by changing the nature of the universe, which is, of course, impractical. Robert Sheckley

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