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being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.

The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.

as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. [Colloq.]

ping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi. 6. Impossible quantity (Math.), an imagnary quantity. See Imagin…

The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility. Goldsmith.

In an impracticable manner. Morality not impracticably rigid. Johnson.

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

Ineffectual; impracticable. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.

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

track, 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.

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

Impracticable; not feasible.

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

or 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.