unworkable
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5.1
- adjective
- /ʌnˈwɜrkəbl/
:
inviable
- But for many pious individuals, these options remain unworkable for several reasons.
- prove unworkable
- unworkable scheme
- simply unworkable
The reactive approach, see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience is unworkable.
- The reactive approach, see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience is unworkable.
- When it came down to it, so many people made the poll tax unworkable that she had to recant and, and abandon it.
Examples
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The result was an unworkable governmental maze in which lobbyists and public-employee unions came to wield huge power.
Academic text (2010) -
Blanket bans on the live reef fish trade are both unwise and unworkable and just drive the trade underground.
Academic text (1998) -
If family commitments or circumstances make this option unworkable, parents are sent written materials.
Academic text (2000) -
Such schemes have proved quite unworkable to me and other experienced faculty.
Academic text (1998) -
To many, the institution is unworkable and its members corrupt.
Academic text (2000) -
To return these nine individuals to such a task would prove unworkable and unwise.
Academic text (2002) -
I would argue that this is a simplistic and ultimately unworkable suggestion.
Academic text (2009) -
Elsewhere, I have suggested that the federation failed in part because it was unworkable; it had insurmountable flaws.
Academic text (1991) -
If, however, decentralization proves unworkable, or separation of Quebec occurs anyway, then the United States must consider further options.
Academic text (1996) -
The plan they proposed was deemed unworkable due to its complexity and lack of resources.
Synonyms
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3.4
Not working well enough to give the wanted result
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2.3
Damaged or broken so it does not work
4
6.8
Not possible to do or make work
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7.2
Not possible to do or make happen
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7.3
Not possible to do in real life because of problems
Antonyms
How Workable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unworkable comes from un- meaning 'not', work meaning 'to do' or 'function', and -able meaning 'able', so it describes something (like a plan or a machine) that cannot be made to work.