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How to pronounce impractical in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms airy, laputan, visionary, windy
Derivation impracticality
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refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense.
he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work.
an impractical solution.

Examples of impractical

impractical
Deemed impractical, that idea was replaced by the more modest hit list of eight.
From the time.com
And there may be projects that are just too expensive or impractical to take on.
From the scienceblogs.com
They are impractical, which is my fault, because I used to say it didn't matter.
From the nzherald.co.nz
President Barack Obama's vision is impractical, costly and ideologically driven.
From the ocregister.com
Simply surfing the apps is a highly impractical method of finding what you need.
From the sfgate.com
Of course, fixing the number of experimental runs a priori would be impractical.
From the en.wikipedia.org
But this was obviously undesirable on Roman territory and impractical in winter.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It's too big, too ambivalent, too imponderable, too illogical, too impractical.
From the post-gazette.com
It seems impractical to have to drive 2,000 miles each way to get it smog tested.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • Not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"
  • Airy: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich"
  • (impracticality) concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use