单词 | infeasible |
释义 | infeasible (once / 200328 pages) adj Infeasible things are impossible, or too complicated to actually be done. Your idea of staging a city-wide game of Capture the Flag is probably infeasible. After several frustrating attempts at walking your cat around the neighborhood on a leash, you might finally decide the idea is infeasible — it's just not going to work the way you imagined. When something is feasible, it's entirely possible. Feasible comes from the Old French faisable, "that may be done," from the Latin root facere, "to make or do." When you add the "not" prefix in-, you get infeasible. WORD FAMILYinfeasible: infeasibility+/feasibility: feasibilities/feasible: feasibility, feasibleness, feasiblest, feasibly, infeasible, unfeasible/unfeasible: unfeasibility USAGE EXAMPLESFurther screening, he said, could make it “infeasible” for Middle Eastern students to come to the U.S. Slate(Nov 10, 2016) If you object that such good policy is politically infeasible, then you at least grant that robust growth is economically possible. Wall Street Journal(Nov 07, 2016) Beijing is anxious over mounting calls in Hong Kong for the territory’s independence — however infeasible experts agree that call to be. Time(Nov 03, 2016) adj not capable of being carried out or put into practice Syn impracticable, unfeasible, unworkable impossible not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with |
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