as in impractical
not capable of being put to use or account
the company decided that the proposed reorganization of its operations was unworkable due to high costs
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Recent Examples of unworkable
Louisiana says law is 'unworkable and unconstitutional' Louisiana, which months ago defended the map legislators drew to include two majority-Black districts, now rejects it.
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Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
So, yes, as unworkable as this plan might seem for the Palestinian group, a Hamas assent is entirely plausible.
—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
The company said extended costs and litigation have made the deal unworkable.
—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Ideas that seemed intriguing in the salons of Paris—ideas like dividing the whole country up into eighty-one uniform squares, each administered as a unit of local government—turned out to be ridiculously unworkable.
—Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Nothing’s as sobering to an impractical but fun idea as having to foot the bill.—
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By increasing effective gravity, researchers can accelerate years or even decades of structural and geological stress into just a few hours, enabling experiments that would be impractical in the real world.—
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Brown’s statement on Monday was mostly useless corporate-speak.—
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This tiny amount of copper acts as a molecular steering wheel, preventing sugar molecules from shattering into useless carbon dioxide.—
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Soils that are high in peat moss are unsuitable for citrus trees.—
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These tests, though frequently used in Denmark as part of child protection investigations, were criticized as inappropriate and unsuitable for the people of Greenland and other minorities.—
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“Unworkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unworkable. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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