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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective impractical has 2 senses
- impractical(a = adj.all) Array - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution" Antonym: practical
- impractical(s = adj.all) airy, laputan, visionary, windy - not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" Derived form noun impracticality1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
impractical, adj.
1 not practical.
2 esp. US not practicable.
1 not practical.
2 esp. US not practicable.
Derivative
impracticality n. impractically adv.
THESAURUS
impractical
abstract, academic, airy, armchair, autistic, awkward, beyond one, bulky, clumsy, conjectural, contrary, crosswise, cumbersome, dereistic, hulking, hulky, hypothetic, ideal, idealistic, impracticable, in the clouds, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual, infeasible, inoperable, insuperable, insurmountable, moot, nonfunctional, nonrealistic, notional, otherworldly, perverse, poetic, ponderous, postulatory, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, speculative, starry, starry-eyed, storybook, theoretical, too much for, transcendental, transmundane, unachievable, unattainable, unavailing, uncompassable, undoable, uneffectible, unfeasible, unhandy, unmanageable, unnegotiable, unperformable, unpractical, unrealistic, unrealizable, unserviceable, unsurmountable, unusable, unwieldy, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, wish-fulfilling
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