Impracticable vs Feasible - What's the difference?
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Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.
Of a passage or road: impassable.
(obsolete) Of a person or thing: unmanageable.
* {{quote-book, 1713, , The Fair Penitent
, passage=And yet this tough impracticable heart / Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl ;
* {{quote-book, c. 1841, , Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, year_published=1960
, passage=H. is a person of extraordinary health & vigor, of unerring perception, & equal expression; and yet he is impracticable , and does not flow through his pen or (in any of our legitimate aqueducts) through his tongue.}}
(obsolete) An unmanageable person.
* {{quote-book, 1829, Henry Barkley Henderson, The Bengalee, or Sketches of Society and Manners in the East
, passage=They were not allowed, of course, to join us in the sitting room, partly that their practice might not be disturbed, but principally, that I was looked upon as an utter impracticable . }}
* {{quote-book, 1867, , Famous Americans of Recent Times
, passage=The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables , headed by John Randolph. }}
* {{quote-book, 1870, , Society and Solitude
, passage=Then there are the gladiators, to whom it is always a battle ; 'tis no matter on which side, they fight for victory; then the heady men, the egotists, the monotones, the steriles, and the impracticables .}}
That can be done in practice.
As adjectives the difference between impracticable and feasible
is that impracticable is not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice while feasible is that can be done in practice.As a noun impracticable
is (obsolete) an unmanageable person.impracticable
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* (impossible or difficult in practice) practicableDerived terms
* impracticability * impracticableness * impracticablyNoun
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(en adjective)- His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible .