Synonyms for impractical
ɪmˈpræk tɪ kəlim·prac·ti·cal

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1. impracticaladjective

   Antonyms:
   practical

2. impracticaladjective

   Antonyms:
   practical

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1. impracticaladjective

   not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters

   "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"

   Synonyms:
   windy, visionary, airy

   Antonyms:
   practical, pragmatic, interoperable, dystopian, applicative, functional, practicable, applicatory, serviceable, operable, working, matter-of-fact, pragmatical, unimaginative

2. airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windyadjective

   not practical or realizable; speculative

   "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"

   Synonyms:
   verbose, wordy, blowy, aery, aeriform, windy, ethereal, airy, long-winded, tedious, aerial, visionary, breezy, aired

   Antonyms:
   applicative, applicatory, serviceable, matter-of-fact, pragmatical, functional, interoperable, practicable, practical, pragmatic, unimaginative, working, operable, dystopian

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1. List of paraphrases for "impractical":

   impracticable, unrealistic, unworkable, unfeasible, inconvenient, impassable, unwieldy, inapplicable, impossible, infeasible, unachievable, unviable

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How to use impractical in a sentence?

1. Paul Bollyky:

   That also makes clinical trials in this space super difficult because of the number of people you would have to immunize to protect against one infection, it's just impractical.

2. Chris Phillips:

   Requiring physical attendance at many shareholder meetings in order to exercise such votes is impractical and antiquated.

3. Pete Hegseth:

   The previous system had ballooned to well over 200 faith codes.… It was impractical and unusable, and many codes were never used at all.

4. Waleed Shahid:

   I think that view of politics is just impractical, in 2009, you couldn't get a single Republican to vote for the ACA, and in 2021, Congress is even more polarized than it was in 2009. I am afraid of Joe Biden and the people around Joe Biden pursuing a political strategy developed in the 1980s and 1990s that doesn't fit the nature of our polarized Congress today.

5. Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944:

   It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.