Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- not practicable; incapable of being put into practice with the available means: an impracticable plan.
- unsuitable for practical use or purposes, as a device or material.
- (of ground, places, etc.) impassable.
- (of persons) hard to deal with because of stubbornness, stupidity, etc.
adjective
- incapable of being put into practice or accomplished; not feasible
- unsuitable for a desired use; unfit
- an archaic word for intractable
“incapable of being done,” 1670s, from assimilated form of in- (1) “not, opposite of” + practicable. Earlier in a sense of “impassable” (1650s).