Definitions for impracticable

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impracticable im·prac·ti·ca·ble

Spelling: [im-prak-ti-kuh-buh l]

IPA: /ɪmˈpræk tɪ kə bəl/

Impracticable is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 29 points.

You can make 1397 anagrams from letters in impracticable (aabcceiilmprt).

Definitions for impracticable

adjective

1. not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means:
2. unsuitable for practical use or purposes, as a device or material.
3. (of ground, places, etc.) impassable.
4. (of persons) hard to deal with because of stubbornness, stupidity, etc.

Origin of impracticable

First recorded in 1645-55; im-² + practicable

Examples for impracticable

Perhaps I was asking what was impracticable, and it is well for me that it was so.

But very soon it was found that such tactics were, in the main, impracticable.

The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.

The advice was good, but in the present temper of the army it was felt to be impracticable.

So sudden, so impetuous was the encounter, all effort to prevent it was impracticable.

They dismissed me as impracticable, and made me garde-chasse; and they were right, too.

That mountain wall, impracticable as it seems, we have to scale.

This was impracticable without the support of the French court.

He was altogether splendid, massive, overpowering, and impracticable.

Flight was humiliating and dreadful, but to remain in England was impracticable.