unpracticable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + practicable.
Adjective
[edit]unpracticable (comparative more unpracticable, superlative most unpracticable)
- 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?"