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Impractical   /ɪmprˈæktəkəl/  /ɪmprˈæktɪkəl/   Listen
Impractical

adjective
1.
Not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters.  "He is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work" , "An impractical solution"
2.
Not practical or realizable; speculative.  Synonyms: airy, Laputan, visionary, windy.  "Visionary schemes for getting rich"



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"Impractical" Quotes from Famous Books



... discussing Socialism is to find a working definition; for this political or social movement is based upon a system of a priori reasoning which often is vague and lacking in deductions from practical experience. Socialism also is unreal in its assumptions and impractical in its conclusions, so that a person finds it almost impossible to give a definition that will include within its scope all the Socialistic vagaries and explain all the suppositions based upon nonexistent facts. Bearing this difficulty in mind, perhaps the following ...
— Socialism and American ideals • William Starr Myers
... strange scenes around her with amused interest. There was a faint blush upon her round cheek as she greeted her old admirer. Mr. Hemstetter shook hands with Johnny in a very friendly way. He was an oldish, impractical man—one of that numerous class of erratic business men who are forever ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... that it drove me to sit down when I reached home and put my reflections into verse; into a form of verse, moreover, which (I was scornfully aware) Mr. Blank would understand as little as the matter of it. He would think them both impractical. Heaven help ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... in Mr. Heath's heavy voice again, "I tell you, Dave, it can't be done. It's impractical. Why, no car ...
— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... "Quite impractical," added Ajo, nodding wisely. "You're both too pretty, my dears, to undertake such an adventure. Why, the wounded men would all fall in love with their nurses and follow you back to America in a flock; and that might put a stop to the war for lack of ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross • Edith Van Dyne


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