impracticable

«impracticable» in Mova's school dictionary: Impossible to do or carry out in practice, even if it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (impracticable; formal)

meaning for a pupil

1) Impossible to do or carry out in practice, even if it sounds good. tree →

2) (of a road or path) Impossible to use or travel on: the road was impracticable after the flood. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in formal writing, reports and history about plans that cannot be carried out because of cost, time, danger or difficulty. Phrases: an impracticable plan, prove impracticable, impracticable in practice.

examples

• The plan to build a tunnel to the island proved impracticable. tree →
• Walking across the desert in a day is impracticable. tree →
• The flooded road was impracticable for cars. tree →
• The idea was clever but impracticable. tree →
• It was impracticable to count every grain of sand. tree →
• Carrying all the books home at once was impracticable, so we took two trips. tree →

note

Trap: «impracticable» = cannot be done; «impractical» = could be done but not sensible or useful (high heels for hiking are impractical). Many people mix them up. Formal word.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «impracticable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.