Meaning

3 senses
  1. Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.

    undurchführbar, unausführbar, unpraktikabel

  2. Impassable (of a passage or road)

    unwegsam, unbegehbar, unbefahrbar

  3. (obsolete)Unmanageable

More definitions
  • not capable of being carried out or put into practice

Examples

3 sentences
  1. At one time it was thought impracticable for man to fly.

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  2. His plan sounds impracticable.

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  3. It would evidently be utterly impracticable to throw the whole traditional nomenclature overboard and create a totally new one.

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Translations

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By meaning 2
not practicable:
impassable:

Forms

more impracticable, most impracticable

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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