What part of speech is impracticable?

Impracticable can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. impracticable is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more impracticable
    most impracticable
  • Positive: impracticable 
  • Comparative: more impracticable
  • Superlative: most impracticable

Adjective to adverb

What does impracticable mean?

Definitions

Adjective

impracticable - not capable of being carried out or put into practice; "refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility"; "a suggested reform that was unfeasible in the prevailing circumstances"

Noun

impracticable - An unmanageable person.

Examples of impracticable

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility.
2. adj. At one time it was thought impracticable for man to fly.
3. adj. His plan sounds impracticable.
4. adj. The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him.
5. adj. It would evidently be utterly impracticable to throw the whole traditional nomenclature overboard and create a totally new one.
Sentence  
adj.
Refloating the sunken ship proved impracticable because of its fragility.
At one time it was thought impracticable for man to fly.
His plan sounds impracticable.
The reader will doubtless take up this little work with an incredulous smile, supposing that he is about to peruse the impracticable schemes of some good citizen of Utopia. I would, therefore, in the first place, beg of him to lay aside all prejudice, and treat seriously and critically the question brought before him.
It would evidently be utterly impracticable to throw the whole traditional nomenclature overboard and create a totally new one.

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