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单词 unworkable
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Definition of unworkable in English:

unworkable

adjectiveʌnˈwəːkəb(ə)lˌənˈwərkəb(ə)l
  • 1Not able to function or be carried out successfully; impractical.

    an unworkable scheme
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The New Zealand Aquaculture Council believes that the provision is unrealistic and unworkable.
    • Not only would it be impractical and unworkable, I doubt whether anyone could seriously believe it.
    • He said that it was more in farmers' interests than anyone else to have traceability but there was no point in trying to achieve that with a scheme that was unworkable.
    • This current system is unworkable, impractical and damaging to the physical and economic health of our once lovely Auld Grey Town.
    • Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.
    • She is not one to be put off simply by senior police officers saying policy is unworkable and impractical.
    • The former Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland has claimed his plans are unrealistic and unworkable.
    • He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.
    • A theory that represents working practices as unworkable is a bad theory.
    • It also doesn't help when companies come up with complex and unworkable investment schemes that people don't understand.
    • The bill was not just excessive but also expensive, not just illiberal but impractical, not just unnecessary but unworkable.
    • The film producer behind Chariots of Fire said the scheme was unworkable.
    • If this decision stands, your Honours, the whole scheme is unworkable.
    • As the costs rise and the race hate builds and the unworkable, self-defeating new scheme unravels, Labor will be mute.
    • One of my greatest strengths has always been the ability to make the apparently impossibly unworkable work.
    • Critics say such a scheme is unworkable but already one example is working - or at least soon will be.
    • Workers previously rejected the firm's plans to reduce staffing levels on a voluntary basis as impractical and unworkable.
    • It is in nobody's interest that an unworkable scheme is introduced.
    • Tell me, do you feel that there's a risk that her next addition to the canon may make impossible or unworkable some of the things you've come to need in your extension?
    • The scheme is expensive, confused, unworkable and unrealistic.
    Synonyms
    unrealistic, unfeasible, non-viable, impracticable
  • 2(of a material) not able to be worked.

    the alloy becomes brittle and almost unworkable
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This area had been damaged so many times the metal was unworkable and the raised section needed to be replaced.

Derivatives

  • unworkability

  • nounʌnwəːkəˈbɪlɪti
    • Hopefully, enough conservative voices speak out to prevent the country from declining further into the chaos and unworkability of full-blown socialism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fortunately, some of the heads of other governments came to understand the unworkability of various aspects of the orders.
      • The invasion and occupation of Iraq offers abundant evidence of the inherent unworkability of a policy of preventive war.
      • For centuries this was the classic text demonstrating the unworkability of democracy.
      • Whether in the future we shall discover the unworkability of the alternatives to democratic capitalism the hard way, by trying them, or the easy way, by studying them and making rational choices, I would not care to predict.
  • unworkably

  • adverb
    • If the soil is frozen or unworkably wet, heel them into the ground in a sunny spot until the conditions are more favourable.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sure, that sounds nice and all, but it requires the unworkably lengthy approach that I outlined previously.
      • Local income tax would be administered by employers through the Pay As You Earn system - but some tax experts think the mechanics would be unworkably complicated.
      • But the main engines of the world economy have been insulated against wildly fluctuating and unworkably high prices by the presence of excess capacity, especially in the hands of American puppet regimes like the House of Saud.
      • Surely we weren't the only family to find the scheduled time unworkably late.
  • unworkableness

  • noun
 
 

Definition of unworkable in US English:

unworkable

adjectiveˌənˈwərkəb(ə)lˌənˈwərkəb(ə)l
  • 1Not able to function or be carried out successfully; impractical.

    complex, unworkable theories
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Workers previously rejected the firm's plans to reduce staffing levels on a voluntary basis as impractical and unworkable.
    • It also doesn't help when companies come up with complex and unworkable investment schemes that people don't understand.
    • Critics say such a scheme is unworkable but already one example is working - or at least soon will be.
    • It is in nobody's interest that an unworkable scheme is introduced.
    • The scheme is expensive, confused, unworkable and unrealistic.
    • He said that it was more in farmers' interests than anyone else to have traceability but there was no point in trying to achieve that with a scheme that was unworkable.
    • He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.
    • The New Zealand Aquaculture Council believes that the provision is unrealistic and unworkable.
    • A theory that represents working practices as unworkable is a bad theory.
    • If this decision stands, your Honours, the whole scheme is unworkable.
    • Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.
    • The film producer behind Chariots of Fire said the scheme was unworkable.
    • This current system is unworkable, impractical and damaging to the physical and economic health of our once lovely Auld Grey Town.
    • One of my greatest strengths has always been the ability to make the apparently impossibly unworkable work.
    • The former Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland has claimed his plans are unrealistic and unworkable.
    • The bill was not just excessive but also expensive, not just illiberal but impractical, not just unnecessary but unworkable.
    • Not only would it be impractical and unworkable, I doubt whether anyone could seriously believe it.
    • She is not one to be put off simply by senior police officers saying policy is unworkable and impractical.
    • As the costs rise and the race hate builds and the unworkable, self-defeating new scheme unravels, Labor will be mute.
    • Tell me, do you feel that there's a risk that her next addition to the canon may make impossible or unworkable some of the things you've come to need in your extension?
    Synonyms
    unrealistic, unfeasible, non-viable, impracticable
    1. 1.1 (of a material) not able to be worked.
      the alloy becomes brittle and almost unworkable
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This area had been damaged so many times the metal was unworkable and the raised section needed to be replaced.
 
 
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