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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1865 not practical: as a. not wise to put into or keep in practice or effect b. incapable of dealing sensibly or prudently with practical matters c. impracticable d. idealistic • impracticality noun • impractically adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not practical. 2 esp. US not practicable. Derivatives: impracticality n. impractically adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Impractical Im*prac"ti*cal, a. Not practical.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe an object, idea, or course of action as impractical, you mean that it is not sensible or realistic, and does not work well in practice. It became impractical to make a business trip by ocean liner. ? practical ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft it v-link ADJ to-inf 2. If you describe someone as impractical, you mean that they do not have the abilities or skills to do practical work such as making, repairing, or organizing things. Geniuses are supposed to be eccentric and hopelessly impractical. ? practical ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Moby 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