Meanings
comparative more unpracticable · superlative most unpracticable
- 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 Sketches1 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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