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Definition of impractical in English: impracticaladjective ɪmˈpraktɪk(ə)lɪmˈpræktək(ə)l 1Not adapted for use or action; not sensible or realistic. his impractical romanticism Example sentencesExamples - I have had numerous bikes both practical and impractical, but nonetheless, I liked them all for one reason or another.
- In a 1986 book, Matsunaga came up with a brilliant, idealistic, impractical, and visionary idea.
- He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.
- Pursuing art seemed impractical, so he joined the family concrete block manufacturing business.
- Today such a view would strike most people in the business as ridiculously impractical.
- A very romantic nature can establish impractical or uncertain objectives.
- There is a tendency to be impractical and too idealistic in your thinking.
- A native of Los Angeles, Strawn is a great believer in ‘that little voice you hear inside’ that tells you to do things that seem at best impractical, at worst crazy.
- I believe this is both wildly impractical and a recipe for failure.
- Was the idealism practiced by Nehru therefore impractical?
- There is something about a person who covers themselves in impossibly impractical cream clothes that says ‘I'm special, you're not; don't bother me’.
- There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
- To brush this consideration aside as idealistic and impractical would be to miss the truth that there is, on occasion, nothing so practical as the right ideal.
- My impractical high heels are cradled in my bag, to be slipped on later.
- But there was no aviation bureaucracy to stifle initiative and smother the life from our most wild and impractical dreams - an endangered species if there was one.
- We hope he will join us in looking for realistic proposals to solve this problem instead of inventing impractical schemes like some latter day Walter Mitty.
- Thus, encourage every single member of your team to be an ideas scout - not all new ideas may be practical - but the impractical ideas could lead to superior ideas.
- We discussed the trip and the people and whether he thought it would be impractical for me.
- He told me that he wanted to get me something silly, something completely impractical.
- These majors were too theoretical and impractical, so that it would be hard to find a job.
Synonyms unsuitable, not sensible, inappropriate, unserviceable - 1.1 (of a person) not skilled or interested in doing practical work.
Paul was impractical and dreamy Example sentencesExamples - The West Wing is complete fiction, a never-could-happen-in-real-life ride through idealized politics and equally impractical individuals.
- She is most like Marianne in temperament - romantic, impractical, and loving.
- People who are smart but don't get things done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical.
- Melanie cleans office buildings hut dreams of a better life that Teddo, an idealistic and impractical dreamer, cannot provide.
- Such is the stereotype of the impractical philosopher.
- Academics are supposed to be the impractical ones: the theorists.
- ‘I found myself being called a tool of the Communists and an impractical religious visionary,’ Ryan wrote.
- She had certainly been an attractive woman but, as he soon discovered, she was also impractical, ineffectual and, above all, conventional.
Synonyms unrealistic, idealistic, head-in-the-clouds, out of touch with reality, romantic, dreamy, fanciful, starry-eyed, visionary, quixotic informal airy-fairy
2North American Impossible to do; impracticable. Example sentencesExamples - It would be impractical to ask to patients to assess their own night vision out of doors.
- Media interest has spiralled to the point that one-on-one interviews are impractical.
- It is generally impractical to provide reservoir storage for extremely large and infrequent floods.
- The production of similar fuels from water, CO 2, and sunlight is at present impractical because the required devices are either costly or inefficient.
- India, for instance, makes short-term assignments impractical because of laborious visa requirements.
- However, analyses of large samples are often impractical due to the expense of individual genotyping.
- Banning them would probably be impractical; pricing them off the road is eminently sensible.
- If a site is extremely large, it becomes impractical to create and maintain an A-Z index for it.
- In practice, it proved impractical to sustain all the original principles in this legislation, particularly the principle that a married couple would share a common nationality.
- The Kyoto Protocol was derided by some in the United States as a fantasy, impractical to implement and unfair in that it did not enlist developing countries in this ‘global’ effort.
- It is obvious that it is generally impractical for judges, as a result of their position, to personally counter political attacks.
- In addition, you could fit 200 mm glass fibre insulation between the joists beneath the bedroom floorboards, though this can prove impractical since it involves lifting up the flooring in the bedroom.
- Since this is difficult and it may be impractical for you to create an ‘allergy-proof’ home, at least make sure your bedroom is as allergen-free as possible.
- Early in the outbreak, vaccination had been considered but was not called on because it was deemed impractical.
- Television chiefs had considered using a genuine Hindu temple in the city for filming, but realised it would be impractical to take over a place of religious worship for an estimated six days.
- It would have been impractical for the Palace Theatre to contact all ticket holders in time for today's first performance, especially when it was not known what the problem was or whether it could be fixed until the engineer had arrived.
- ‘It would be unrealistic and impractical to expect the HSA to provide a constant presence in every workplace,’ said Minister Kitt.
- However, the complexity of construction and the costs involved in gathering all the needed components make this impractical for most people.
- In the end, however, mass evacuation was deemed impractical.
- Urine tests for alcohol proved to be just as impractical in the field as blood sampling.
Synonyms unrealistic, unworkable, unfeasible, non-viable, impracticable ill-considered, ill-thought-out, illogical, unreasonable, far-fetched, impossible, silly, foolish, absurd, wild informal cock-eyed, crackpot, crazy, half-baked
Usage On the differences in the use of impractical and impracticable, see impracticable Derivatives noun ɪmˌpraktɪˈkalɪti She must have been in her early twenties, with a sharp, overstyled haircut and fingernails that announced their impracticality in flashes of silver. Example sentencesExamples - In the era of the internet and video communications there is also an element of impracticality to such attempts at censorship.
- But the impracticality of the vision must soon have been recognized.
- Sometimes Evie was exasperated at her mother's impracticality.
- The advice was given in the specific context of large-scale arrests and the impracticality of bringing all cases before the courts, where many would receive a caution anyway.
adverb I approached my education, even my graduate and postgraduate education (at the Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses of the University of California and at the University of Ghana), rather impractically. Example sentencesExamples - In a cloud of heavy vanilla-based perfume and a click of impractically high heels, she was gone.
- They are excellent glasses, but very expensive and impractically large.
- But some of the play's final answers seem to me improbably and impractically noble.
- Unlike previous single-molecule experiments, which were impractically complicated for large-scale applications, the simplicity of this design lends itself to many applications.
Rhymes practical, syntactical, tactical Definition of impractical in US English: impracticaladjectiveɪmˈpræktək(ə)limˈpraktək(ə)l 1(of an object or course of action) not adapted for use or action; not sensible or realistic. his impractical romanticism Example sentencesExamples - Pursuing art seemed impractical, so he joined the family concrete block manufacturing business.
- A very romantic nature can establish impractical or uncertain objectives.
- These majors were too theoretical and impractical, so that it would be hard to find a job.
- Today such a view would strike most people in the business as ridiculously impractical.
- We hope he will join us in looking for realistic proposals to solve this problem instead of inventing impractical schemes like some latter day Walter Mitty.
- But there was no aviation bureaucracy to stifle initiative and smother the life from our most wild and impractical dreams - an endangered species if there was one.
- A native of Los Angeles, Strawn is a great believer in ‘that little voice you hear inside’ that tells you to do things that seem at best impractical, at worst crazy.
- There is something about a person who covers themselves in impossibly impractical cream clothes that says ‘I'm special, you're not; don't bother me’.
- He told me that he wanted to get me something silly, something completely impractical.
- We discussed the trip and the people and whether he thought it would be impractical for me.
- There is a tendency to be impractical and too idealistic in your thinking.
- In a 1986 book, Matsunaga came up with a brilliant, idealistic, impractical, and visionary idea.
- There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
- He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.
- I believe this is both wildly impractical and a recipe for failure.
- My impractical high heels are cradled in my bag, to be slipped on later.
- Thus, encourage every single member of your team to be an ideas scout - not all new ideas may be practical - but the impractical ideas could lead to superior ideas.
- Was the idealism practiced by Nehru therefore impractical?
- To brush this consideration aside as idealistic and impractical would be to miss the truth that there is, on occasion, nothing so practical as the right ideal.
- I have had numerous bikes both practical and impractical, but nonetheless, I liked them all for one reason or another.
Synonyms unsuitable, not sensible, inappropriate, unserviceable - 1.1 (of a person) not skilled or interested in practical matters.
Paul was impractical and dreamy Example sentencesExamples - People who are smart but don't get things done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical.
- Such is the stereotype of the impractical philosopher.
- Melanie cleans office buildings hut dreams of a better life that Teddo, an idealistic and impractical dreamer, cannot provide.
- She had certainly been an attractive woman but, as he soon discovered, she was also impractical, ineffectual and, above all, conventional.
- The West Wing is complete fiction, a never-could-happen-in-real-life ride through idealized politics and equally impractical individuals.
- ‘I found myself being called a tool of the Communists and an impractical religious visionary,’ Ryan wrote.
- Academics are supposed to be the impractical ones: the theorists.
- She is most like Marianne in temperament - romantic, impractical, and loving.
Synonyms unrealistic, idealistic, head-in-the-clouds, out of touch with reality, romantic, dreamy, fanciful, starry-eyed, visionary, quixotic
2North American Impossible to do; impracticable. Example sentencesExamples - The Kyoto Protocol was derided by some in the United States as a fantasy, impractical to implement and unfair in that it did not enlist developing countries in this ‘global’ effort.
- In the end, however, mass evacuation was deemed impractical.
- Banning them would probably be impractical; pricing them off the road is eminently sensible.
- Television chiefs had considered using a genuine Hindu temple in the city for filming, but realised it would be impractical to take over a place of religious worship for an estimated six days.
- It would be impractical to ask to patients to assess their own night vision out of doors.
- Media interest has spiralled to the point that one-on-one interviews are impractical.
- If a site is extremely large, it becomes impractical to create and maintain an A-Z index for it.
- Urine tests for alcohol proved to be just as impractical in the field as blood sampling.
- In practice, it proved impractical to sustain all the original principles in this legislation, particularly the principle that a married couple would share a common nationality.
- In addition, you could fit 200 mm glass fibre insulation between the joists beneath the bedroom floorboards, though this can prove impractical since it involves lifting up the flooring in the bedroom.
- It is generally impractical to provide reservoir storage for extremely large and infrequent floods.
- Early in the outbreak, vaccination had been considered but was not called on because it was deemed impractical.
- India, for instance, makes short-term assignments impractical because of laborious visa requirements.
- It would have been impractical for the Palace Theatre to contact all ticket holders in time for today's first performance, especially when it was not known what the problem was or whether it could be fixed until the engineer had arrived.
- ‘It would be unrealistic and impractical to expect the HSA to provide a constant presence in every workplace,’ said Minister Kitt.
- Since this is difficult and it may be impractical for you to create an ‘allergy-proof’ home, at least make sure your bedroom is as allergen-free as possible.
- It is obvious that it is generally impractical for judges, as a result of their position, to personally counter political attacks.
- However, analyses of large samples are often impractical due to the expense of individual genotyping.
- The production of similar fuels from water, CO 2, and sunlight is at present impractical because the required devices are either costly or inefficient.
- However, the complexity of construction and the costs involved in gathering all the needed components make this impractical for most people.
Synonyms unrealistic, unworkable, unfeasible, non-viable, impracticable
Usage On the differences in the use of impractical and impracticable, see impracticable |