impractical
adjective
im·prac·ti·cal
(ˌ)im-ˈprak-ti-kəl 
: not practical: such as
a
: not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect
b
: incapable of dealing sensibly or prudently with practical matters
c
d
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Little sports cars are impractical for large families.
He was a dreamy and impractical young man.
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For instance, unused network segments can be powered down temporarily to save energy, a task that would be impractical to manage manually across thousands of network sites.
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Robert Backhouse, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Experts dismiss an analogous design for the U.S. as impractical—Israel's defenses are vastly different to the U.S. for several reasons, not least the size of the country and who is doing the targeting.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
One scene involves a woman performing a dance traditional in northern India, called a Kathak dance, and Pall says that gathering enough data to train a model would be impractical.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Dec. 2024
That’s because a lot of those effects were marvelously impractical.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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Robert Backhouse, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Experts dismiss an analogous design for the U.S. as impractical—Israel's defenses are vastly different to the U.S. for several reasons, not least the size of the country and who is doing the targeting.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
One scene involves a woman performing a dance traditional in northern India, called a Kathak dance, and Pall says that gathering enough data to train a model would be impractical.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Dec. 2024
That’s because a lot of those effects were marvelously impractical.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Impractical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impractical. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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impractical
adjective
im·prac·ti·cal
(ˈ)im-ˈprak-ti-kəl
: not practical: as
a
: not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect
an impractical rule disliked by many
b
: incapable of dealing sensibly with practical matters
c
: impracticable
the new gadgets were complicated and impractical
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