unpracticable
adjEtymology From un- + practicable.
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Not practicable.
- But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences.1869, Alexander Bain, Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics:
- It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches:
- Derived terms
- unpracticability, unpracticableness, unpracticably