unpracticable

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adjective

Not practicable.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveunpracticable (comparative more unpracticable, superlative most unpracticable)

comparative more unpracticable · superlative most unpracticable

  1. Not practicable.

    It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"

    1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches
    1 more example

    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.

    1869, Alexander Bain, Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

Origin

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APA

unpracticable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpracticable

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“unpracticable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpracticable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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