unpracticable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ practicable

Adjective[edit]

unpracticable (comparative more unpracticable, superlative most unpracticable)

  1. Not practicable.
    • 1869, Alexander Bain, Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics[1]:
      But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences.
    • 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches[2]:
      It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"