impractical
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters
refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense
Related & opposite
- impossible also see
- unrealistic also see
- practical antonym
- practicality attribute
- screwball similar to
- meshuggeneh similar to
- quixotic similar to
- unfunctional similar to
- unwieldy similar to
Sense 2 adjective
not practical or realizable; speculative
airy theories about socioeconomic improvement
Related & opposite
- impracticality derivation
- Laputa derivation
- vision derivation
- visionary derivation
- utopian similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | impossible |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | unrealistic |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | practical |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | practicality |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | screwball |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | meshuggeneh |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | quixotic |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unfunctional |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unwieldy |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impracticality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | Laputa |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vision |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | visionary |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | utopian |