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Impractical

adjective

Not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters. "He is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work" , "An impractical solution"

Not practical or realizable; speculative. Synonyms: airy, Laputan, visionary, windy. "Visionary schemes for getting rich"

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"Impractical" Quotes from Famous Books

... The impractical cooperative which fails is bad enough, for it discourages many people from making a second attempt, but the false cooperative is a greater menace to the cooperative movement. The private promoter with his selfish interests rigs up a scheme to look like cooperation, ...

— Consumers' Cooperative Societies in New York State • The Consumers' League of New York

... conceived that idea it was impractical. He was too far ahead of the times. But to-day, lad, it means that every mine dump in the Cripple Creek region will be worked over again and the gold removed at a trifling expense, for in that tube are the blueprints ...

— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley

... not grudge the hardship, for he carried on his back a bulky bundle of clothes for Lovin Child; enough to last the winter through, and some to spare; a woman would have laughed at some of the things he chose: impractical, dainty garments that Bud could not launder properly to save his life. But there were little really truly overalls, in which Lovin Child promptly developed a strut that delighted the men and earned him the title of Old Prospector. And there ...

— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... Tinkersfield was no Sunday school; and they weren't slaves to have their liberty taken from them by a lot of impractical reformers. And Lee was that kind. What had he ever done to prove that he'd make good? They knew Tillotson. They didn't know Lee. ...

— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey

... genius be insufficiently supplied with that trouble and sorrow which is supposed to be quite indispensable to his best work. But here and there the thinkers are beginning to realize that the irritable, impulsive, impractical nature of the genius, in even the most favorable environment, is formed for trouble "as the sparks to fly upward." They see that fortune has slain its hundreds of geniuses, but trouble its ten thousands. And they conclude that their own real solicitude should be, not lest the ...

— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

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