adj
Meaning 1
Not practical; impracticable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: practical
Standard Lemma guide
impractical
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪmˈpɹæktɪkəl/
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 M P R AE1 K T AH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: IH2 M P R AE1 K T IH0 K AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective
Meaning 2
not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense
- he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work
- an impractical solution
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: practical
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
not practical or realizable; speculative
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- airy theories about socioeconomic improvement
- visionary schemes for getting rich
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: airy, visionary, Laputan, windy
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English im- English practical English impractical From im- + practical.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: nepraktický — not practical
- Dutch: onpraktisch — not practical
- Dutch: onhandig — not practical
- Finnish: epäkäytännöllinen — not practical
- Finnish: epätarkoituksenmukainen — not practical
- French: infaisable — not practical
- German: unpraktisch — not practical
- German: unnütz — not practical
- German: unbrauchbar — not practical
- German: untauglich — not practical
- Hungarian: használhatatlan — not practical
- Ladin: ncomper — not practical
- Norwegian Bokmål: upraktisk — not practical
- Norwegian Nynorsk: upraktisk — not practical
- Plautdietsch: omstendich — not practical
- Plautdietsch: ondeenlich — not practical
- Polish: niepraktyczny — not practical
- Portuguese: impraticável — not practical
- Russian: непракти́чный (nepraktíčnyj) — not practical
- Swedish: opraktisk — not practical