Impractical

English

Adjective

Impractical (comparative more Impractical, superlative most Impractical)

1. Not practical; impracticable.

Notes

• Said of people, theories, philosophies, etc.

Antonyms

• practical

Derived terms

• impracticality
• impractically
• impracticalness

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

From im- + practical

Translations

not practical

Czech: nepraktický (cs) m. Dutch: onpraktisch (nl), onhandig (nl)

Finnish: epäkäytännöllinen, epätarkoituksenmukainen German: unpraktisch (de), unnütz (de), unbrauchbar (de), untauglich (de) Hungarian: használhatatlan (hu)