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Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.

Practicable. [Obs.]

ack, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. "Try not the pass!" the old man said. Longfellow.

Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility. "The practicability of such a project." Stewart.

An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, whi…

Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. --Tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tract"a/bly, adv.

Capable of being undertaken; practicable.

Incapable of being treated; not practicable. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

r movement for colonizing their own race in Palestine, the land of Zion, or, if that is impracticable, elsewhere, either for religious or nationalizing purposes; -- called also Zion movement. --Zi"on*ist, n. -- Zi`on*is"tic (#), a.