† unfeasableadj.
Obsolete.
= unfeasible adj.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adjective]
impossible1340
unfeasible1527
infeasible1533
unablec1540
unperformable1583
unpracticeable1588
unfeasable1628
uneffectible1646
unpracticable1650
unoperable1652
unaccomplishable1675
imprestable1683
imperformable1693
impracticable1696
unexecutable1794
ineffectible1806
inexecutable1833
unworkable1839
impractical1865
undoable1865
impos.1924
1628 J. Mede Let. 18 Oct. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 268 Their works seem now altogether unfeisable.
1640 K. Digby in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. IV. 133 All those wayes were not onely very difficult and peradventure vnfeazable [etc.].
1673 S'too him Bayes 15 The bishop was a weak man, and laid an unfeisable design.
Derivatives
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [noun]
unfeasableness1639
impracticableness1653
unfeasibleness1653
infeasibleness1654
infeasibility1655
unfeasibility1655
unpracticableness1660
impracticability1747
no-goism1850
unworkableness1877
unworkability1881
impracticalness1905
impracticality1916
1639 J. Woodall Treat. Gangrena in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 390 To brand it with pittifull inhibitions..and unfeasiblenesse [etc.].
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 682 Those small and pitiful attempts..only showing the Unfeisableness and Impossibility thereof.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adverb]
unfeasably1638
impracticably1781
unworkably1927
unfeasibly1934
impractically1947
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 331 Workes..done by an unspeakable way of Art, delicatly, divinely, unfeisably, etc. insinuate nothing els.
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adj.1628