un-practicableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unpracticable (comparative more unpracticable, superlative most unpracticable)

1. Not practicable.

   Alternative form: impracticable

   • 1869, Alexander Bain, Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics‎:

     But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences.

   • 1913, Stephen Graham, A Tramp's Sketches‎:

     It has been urged, "You are unpracticable; you want a world of tramps--how are you going to live?"