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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters;
- Example: "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"
- Example: "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"
- Example: "an impractical solution"

2. not practical or realizable; speculative;
- Example: "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"
- Example: "visionary schemes for getting rich"
[syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Impractical \Im*prac"ti*cal\, a. Not practical. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

impractical adj 1: 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" [ant: practical] 2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "impractical": abstract, academic, airy, armchair, autistic, awkward, beyond one, bulky, clumsy, conjectural, contrary, crosswise, cumbersome, dereistic, hulking, hulky, hypothetic, ideal, idealistic, impracticable, in the clouds, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual, infeasible, inoperable, insuperable, insurmountable, moot, nonfunctional, nonrealistic, notional, otherworldly, perverse, poetic, ponderous, postulatory, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, speculative, starry, starry-eyed, storybook, theoretical, too much for, transcendental, transmundane, unachievable, unattainable, unavailing, uncompassable, undoable, uneffectible, unfeasible, unhandy, unmanageable, unnegotiable, unperformable, unpractical, unrealistic, unrealizable, unserviceable, unsurmountable, unusable, unwieldy, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, wish-fulfilling