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Webster 1913 Edition


Unpracticable

Un-prac′ti-ca-ble

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Adj.
Impracticable; not feasible.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unpracticable

UNPRAC'TICABLE

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Adj.
Not feasible; that cannot be performed. [The word now used is impracticable.]

Definition 2024


unpracticable

unpracticable

English

Adjective

unpracticable (comparative more unpracticable, superlative most unpracticable)

  1. Not practicable.
    • 1869, Alexander Bain, Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics:
      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.
    • 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches:
      It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"