Meanings
plural impracticabilities
- countableuncountableThe quality or condition of being impracticable.
It is more than possible that the distress I was now in for money, and the impracticability of going on in this manner, might have restored me at once to my senses and to my studies, had I opened my eyes before I became involved in debts from which I saw no hopes of ever extricating myself.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC - countableuncountableAn impracticable thing.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of not being usable
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian неизпълнимост
- неизпълнимост (neizpălnimost)the quality or condition of being impracticable
Catalan impracticabilitat
- impracticabilitatthe quality or condition of being impracticable
Finnish epäkäytännöllisyys, epäkäytännöllinen
- epäkäytännöllisyysthe quality or condition of being impracticable
- epäkäytännöllinenan impracticable thing
Portuguese impraticabilidade
- impraticabilidadethe quality or condition of being impracticable
Romanian impractibilitate
- impractibilitatethe quality or condition of being impracticable
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impracticability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/impracticability
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