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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Impractical \Im*prac"ti*cal\, adjective Not practical.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
impractical
adjective
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" [ant: {practical}]
2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: {airy}, {visionary}, {Laputan}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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