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# impracticability

«impracticability» in Mova's school dictionary: **The quality of being impossible or almost impossible to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (impracticability — uncountable; formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The quality of being impossible or almost impossible to do in practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#m1)

2) (formal) Something that cannot be done because of real-world limits like cost, time or difficulty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A stiff, formal word in reports, law and exams: «the impracticability of the plan» means the plan cannot really be carried out. Children rarely say it; in plain words it is «it just won't work». Phrases: the impracticability of, owing to its impracticability.

### examples

- The council dropped the bridge plan because of its impracticability. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#x1)
- The impracticability of moving the whole school in one day was obvious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#x2)
- Owing to the impracticability of the trip, it was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#x3)
- The report explained the impracticability of building on the marsh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#x4)
- My teacher pointed out the impracticability of feeding a hundred pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#x5)
- Everyone could see the impracticability of a swimming pool on the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/#x6)

### note

Long formal word: im-prac-ti-ca-bil-i-ty. Adjective «impracticable». Compare «impracticality» (being not sensible or useful), a close but different idea.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «impracticability» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/impracticability/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.