as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
an unrealizable dream for a severely impoverished nation
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Recent Examples of unrealizable
One red flag for me is that both HyImpulse and Rocket Factory Augsburg have business cases built around 50 commercial launches a year, which seems completely unrealizable, both from a demand standpoint as well as the exceptional technical capability needed to reach such a cadence.
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Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2023
Judging from the Biden administration's first 100 days -- an unrealistic and unrealizable metric by which to judge a presidency -- there's no danger of that happening.
—Aaron David Miller, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
Your partner or a close friend distract you a bit with unrealizable goals.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2019
That was a signature promise and was probably the most flagrantly unrealizable promise in all of American presidential politics, the idea that Mexico would pay for this wall.
—NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
The actual proposals in King’s article are a convenient mix of the inoffensive and the unrealizable, and therefore are not particularly concerning.
—Max Bloom, National Review, 20 July 2017
The fact that Kingelez’s projects are unrealizable shields them from any nattering rationality.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrealizable
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While Houston’s rally wasn’t quite as explosive, the Texans pulled off what once seemed impossible.—
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There are great catches and there are impossible catches.—
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The Knights could only manage a hopeless heave from well beyond halfcourt at the buzzer.—
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Produced by Feingold’s Romantical and distributed by Level33, the film follows Leo Kadner (Feingold), a hopeless romantic New Yorker who reconnects with his childhood crush Eva Shapiro (Sarah Coffey) while preparing for his 31-year-old Bar Mitzvah.—
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“Unrealizable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrealizable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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