Thesaurus / impractical
other words for impractical
- absurd
- illogical
- impossible
- improbable
- quixotic
- speculative
- unattainable
- unreal
- unusable
- unwise
- unworkable
- useless
- abstract
- chimerical
- idealistic
- impracticable
- inapplicable
- inefficacious
- infeasible
- inoperable
- ivory-tower
- no go
- nonfunctional
- nonviable
- otherworldly
- romantic
- starry-eyed
- theoretical
- unbusinesslike
- unfeasible
- unserviceable
- visionary
- wild
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Often the best places were inaccessible without a long hike from the road, and that was impractical.
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Dyson’s 2013 calculation convinced many people that gravitational wave detectors were, at best, impractical probes for learning about quantum gravity.
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The items on this packing list are in the very early stages of development, and in some cases, still pretty impractical and unproven.
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Most designs so far also require individual lasers to control each qubit, which quickly gets impractical for devices with thousands if not millions of qubits.
However, in their case, the ship was stationery – which would have been impractical in a real-time scenario with the undulating waves and the ongoing naval maneuvering.
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He may be something of an impractical dreamer, but he will be kind and true.
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If I started considering the impractical side of it I'd recognize it in its true light, which was unmitigated madness.
THE ANIMATED PINUPLEWIS PARKER
On the contrary, I still regarded Socialism as impractical; I still believed it to be absurd.
TWENTIETH CENTURY SOCIALISMEDMOND KELLY
The bureau reasoned that since segregation was impractical, exclusion was necessary.
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They consider all these "isms" as equally vile, impractical, and obnoxious.
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WORDS RELATED TO IMPRACTICAL
- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- relaxing
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
- barmy
- childish
- dizzy
- empty-headed
- facetious
- featherbrained
- flighty
- flip
- flippant
- foolish
- gay
- giddy
- harebrained
- idiotic
- idle
- ill-considered
- impractical
- juvenile
- light
- light-minded
- minor
- niggling
- nonserious
- not serious
- paltry
- peripheral
- petty
- playful
- pointless
- puerile
- scatterbrained
- senseless
- shallow
- sportive
- superficial
- tongue-in-cheek
- unimportant
- unprofound
- volatile
- whimsical
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- empty
- exhausted
- forlorn
- fruitless
- hollow
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- in vain
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- insufficient
- no dice
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- out the window
- profitless
- resultless
- sterile
- to no avail
- to no effect
- to no purpose
- trifling
- trivial
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unneeded
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unreal
- unsatisfactory
- unsubstantial
- unsuccessful
- useless
- vain
- valueless
- worthless
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