Associations to the word «Impracticable»

Wiktionary

IMPRACTICABLE, adjective. Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.
IMPRACTICABLE, adjective. Of a passage or road: impassable.
IMPRACTICABLE, adjective. (obsolete) Of a person or thing: unmanageable.
IMPRACTICABLE, noun. (obsolete) An unmanageable person.

Dictionary definition

IMPRACTICABLE, adjective. Not capable of being carried out or put into practice; "refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility"; "a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats