Impracticable
adjective
Impossible to do or carry out because of the conditions or resources available.
The construction of a bridge in the area turned out to be impracticable due to the bad soil condition and weather.
adjective
Not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect.
Her idea to take a shortcut through the forest at night was impracticable as it was too risky.
adjective
Impossible to do or carry out because of the conditions or resources available.
The construction of a bridge in the area turned out to be impracticable due to the bad soil condition and weather.
adjective
Not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect.
Her idea to take a shortcut through the forest at night was impracticable as it was too risky.
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Pro Tip 1/3Resource Limitations
Use 'impracticable' to describe tasks that can't be done due to a lack of materials, money, or other necessary items.
Building a new school was impracticable with the budget cuts.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Constraints
Use it when physical conditions, like geography or climate, make a task impossible to perform.
Hiking up the mountain in winter is impracticable.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Hard
'Impracticable' is not just for difficult tasks, but those that can't be performed at all.
Crossing the flooded river by foot is impracticable.
Pro Tip 1/3Resource Limitations
Use 'impracticable' to describe tasks that can't be done due to a lack of materials, money, or other necessary items.
Building a new school was impracticable with the budget cuts.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Constraints
Use it when physical conditions, like geography or climate, make a task impossible to perform.
Hiking up the mountain in winter is impracticable.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Hard
'Impracticable' is not just for difficult tasks, but those that can't be performed at all.
Crossing the flooded river by foot is impracticable.
Pro Tip 1/3Resource Limitations
Use 'impracticable' to describe tasks that can't be done due to a lack of materials, money, or other necessary items.
Building a new school was impracticable with the budget cuts.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Constraints
Use it when physical conditions, like geography or climate, make a task impossible to perform.
Hiking up the mountain in winter is impracticable.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Hard
'Impracticable' is not just for difficult tasks, but those that can't be performed at all.
Crossing the flooded river by foot is impracticable.
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Quote examples
Richard Cobden
British Businessman
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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William Godwin
English Writer
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Richard Cobden
British Businessman
In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
Quote examples
Samuel Johnson
English Writer
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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William Godwin
English Writer
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
Quote examples
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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