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impracticables

impracticables is the plural of impracticable.

Meaning of impracticable

Noun

impracticable (plural impracticables)

  1. (obsolete) an unmanageable person
    • 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.1829, Henry Barkley Henderson, The Bengalee, or Sketches of Society and Manners in the East, page 13

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Questions about impracticables

What is impracticables the plural of?
Impracticables is the plural of impracticable.

Words near impracticables in the dictionary

  1. impp.
  2. impracticabilities
  3. impracticability
  4. impracticable
  5. impracticableness
  6. impracticables
  7. impracticably
  8. impractical
  9. impracticalities
  10. impracticality
  11. impractically

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