impracticable
impracticable · impracticables
An unmanageable personAn unmanageable person
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
/ɪmˈpɹaktɪkəb(ə)l/
» At one time it was thought impracticable for man to fly.
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1 senses(obsolete)An unmanageable person
Examples
3 sentencesAt one time it was thought impracticable for man to fly.
His plan sounds impracticable.
It would evidently be utterly impracticable to throw the whole traditional nomenclature overboard and create a totally new one.
Forms
plural: impracticables| Singular | impracticable |
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See also
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