impracticality

Examples

• All

• The need for such exclusive media decisions is explained by the impracticality of having and maintaining a wide variety of media platforms at the institutional level.

  Academic text (2015)

• The impracticality of using a bicycle in the mountainous terrain was evident to everyone.

• I feel sure the impracticality of it would be all too clear to you later.

  The Night of the Iguana (1964)

• Quite apart from its impracticality, it is not natural.

  Academic text (1993)

• The problem, however, goes beyond the impracticality of such a proposal.

  Academic text (1998)

• The impracticality of physical travel between stars has constrained and shaped the nature of such trade.

  Fiction book (2001)

• What has stayed with me is its perverse impracticality.

  Academic text (1999)

• The utter impracticality of a liberal arts degree is one of its stronger recommendations.

  Blog text (32)

• As I matured, so did my worldview, and I realized the growing chance and impracticality of the possibility.

  Blog text (4)

• Thus, McCarthyism's excesses do not invalidate anticommunism; similarly, the impracticality of Prohibition hardly demonstrates that opposition.

  Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

U

uselessness

vsimpracticality

6 4.3

A state in which something does not help or have value

is used for being unworkable or unsuitable rather than simply valueless

U

unsuitability

vsimpracticality

1 5.5

A state in which something is not right for a particular use or situation

focuses more on being unworkable in practice rather than only inappropriate

I

infeasibility

vsimpracticality

1 8.5

A situation where something cannot be done or is not practical

is broader including ideas that are unsuitable though possibly doable

I

impracticableness

vsimpracticality

• Formal

9.9

A state in which something cannot be done in real life

is broader covering being unworkable or unsuitable for use

I

impracticability

vsimpracticality

• Formal

9.0

A situation where something cannot be done or used in real life

is about unsuitability for practical application rather than strict impossibility

I

inviability

vsimpracticality

8.5

A situation that is impossible or too difficult to make work

is about being unworkable for practical use in ordinary situations

U

unworkability

vsimpracticality

7.7

Impossible or very difficult to make a plan succeed

is broader by also covering unsuitability despite possible practical use

U

unusability

vsimpracticality

7.5

A condition where something cannot be used

is about unsuitability for practical use rather than only not fit for use

I

inoperability

vsimpracticality

8.2

A situation when a machine or system cannot work as it should

is broader covering unsuitability for use beyond mere functional failure

U

unusefulness

vsimpracticality

9.2

A situation when something is not helpful and has no clear purpose

focuses on lack of usefulness rather than impossibility to use

N

nonutility

vsimpracticality

7.8

Not useful for practical purposes

stresses being unworkable or unsuitable for real use rather than uselessness

I

inutility

vsimpracticality

• Archaic

9.9

A state of not being useful

focuses on being unsuitable or unworkable rather than merely pointless

I

inappositeness

vsimpracticality

9.9

The state of not being suitable for a situation or purpose

is broader adding the idea of being unworkable not only inappropriate

I

inaptness

vsimpracticality

• Formal

9.1

Not suitable or right for a situation

emphasizes not working in practice rather than mere mismatch to task

U

unsuitableness

vsimpracticality

7.4

The state of not being right for a use or situation

is about failure to work or be practical beyond mere mismatch

I

inexpediency

vsimpracticality

• Formal

9.9

A state of being unsuitable or unwise for a specific purpose

focuses on being impractical in use rather than a judgment about wisdom

Antonyms

P

practicality

26 3.9

Being useful and likely to work well in real situations

F

feasibility

18 4.5

How possible something is to do, like a plan or idea

How Practical

practicality

26 3.9

usefulness

40 1.6

unsuitability

1 5.5

impracticality

1 6.8

uselessness

6 4.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology