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[syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Impractical \Im*prac"ti*cal\, a.
Not practical.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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"; "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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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