Impractical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impractical \Im*prac"ti*cal\, a.
     Not practical.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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" [ant: {practical}]
       2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
          about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for
          getting rich" [syn: {airy}, {visionary}, {Laputan}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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