OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 32050

impracticable

/ɪmˈpɹaktɪkəb(ə)l/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
impracticable
Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.
It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate w…
Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish. This is a measure of how…