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impracticable
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Definition:1. Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.2. Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.3. Incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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I speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as heretofore.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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The idea of burgling the vicarage and tying the vicar up and sticking lighted matches between his toes till he disgorged the miniature he dismissed as impracticable.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.133 (1971)
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The track was rough and difficult to traverse, even for an active man with both his legs to go upon; but for me, in my present halt and maimed condition, it was terribly hard and all but impracticable.
Grant Allen. The White Man's Foot
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The callers were fewer to-day than usual—only twelve of them. Of these, eight had only impracticable schemes to propose. In fact, one of them wanted to revive painting, an art fallen into desuetude owing to the progress made in color-photography.
Verne, Jules; Verne, Michel. In the Year 2889
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He saw just the same thing in the socialistic books: either they were the beautiful but impracticable fantasies which had fascinated him when he was a student, or they were attempts at improving, rectifying the economic position in which Europe was placed, with which the system of land tenure in Russia had nothing in common.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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