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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1. Moshe Hauer:

   We have focused our support on efforts to evacuate people from Ukraine to neighboring countries, relocation to safer zones within the country when evacuation is impractical, support for refugees, and support for communities and individuals remaining in their homes and communities.

2. Chris Phillips:

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

3. Carrie Lam:

   Constitutional development must be built on the basis of the Basic Law and the decision of (China's) NPCSC (National People's Congress Standing Committee), otherwise it would only be futile and impractical and the aim of universal suffrage for the CE (Chief Executive) election would only become a 'castle in the air'.

4. Renae A. Sauter:

   That deep longing you keep dismissing as impractical may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.

5. 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.