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im⋅prac⋅ti⋅ca⋅ble

   [im-prak-ti-kuh-buhl]
–adjective
1. not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means: an impracticable plan.
2. unsuitable for practical use or purposes, as a device or material.
3. (of ground, places, etc.) impassable.
4. (of persons) hard to deal with because of stubbornness, stupidity, etc.
Origin:
1645–55; im- 2 + practicable
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im·prac·ti·ca·ble     (ĭm-prāk'tĭ-kə-bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Impossible to do or carry out: Refloating the sunken ship intact proved impracticable because of its fragility.
  2. Unfit for passage: roads impracticable in winter.
  3. Archaic Unmanageable; intractable.
im·prac'ti·ca·bil'i·ty, im·prac'ti·ca·ble·ness n., im·prac'ti·ca·bly adv.
Usage Note: The adjective impracticable applies to a course of action that is impossible to carry out or put into practice; impractical, though it can be used in this way, also can be weaker in sense, suggesting that the course of action would yield an insufficient return or would have little practical value. A plan for a new stadium may be rejected as impracticable if the site is too marshy to permit safe construction, but if the objection is that the site is too remote for patrons to attend games easily, the plan is better described as impractical. See Usage Note at practicable.

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impracticably

adverb
to an impracticable degree; "this is still impracticably high" 

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Impracticably

Im*prac"ti*ca*bly\, adv. In an impracticable manner.

Morality not impracticably rigid. --Johnson.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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