impracticability
Cannot be done
Impracticability is the quality of being impossible or extremely difficult to carry out in practice.
Something may be theoretically possible but fail the test of impracticability due to cost, time, or physical constraints: The impracticability of the plan became clear once we saw the budget.
Legal and contractual contexts distinguish impracticability from mere inconvenience—it must approach impossibility, not just difficulty.
Impossible to execute
- unachievableCannot be accomplished
- unattainableImpossible to acquire
- unrealizableImpossible to achieve
- undoableCapable of being reversed
unviable · nonviable · insurmountable · futile · hopeless · inaccessible · unmanageable · unrealistic
Based on hypothesis, untested
- hypotheticalAssumed but unproven
- idealisticPursuing unrealistic standards
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- speculativeBased on conjecture
ivory-tower · armchair · academic · notional · conceptual · unrealistic · visionary · fanciful
Obstruction preventing passage
- hindranceBarrier to progress
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- stumbling blockObstacle causing difficulty
- roadblockObstruction across a road
bottleneck · hurdle · snag · difficulty · encumbrance · constraint · limitation · deterrent
State of elaborate complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- elaboratenessState of being ornate
- entanglementState of being intertwined
knottiness · labyrinthine · byzantine · involved · multifaceted · tangled · thorny · cumbersome
unworkable
Impossible to execute
- unachievableCannot be accomplished
- unattainableImpossible to acquire
- unrealizableImpossible to achieve
undoable · unviable · nonviable · insurmountable · futile · hopeless · inaccessible · unmanageable · unrealistic · quixotic
theoretical
Based on hypothesis, untested
- hypotheticalAssumed but unproven
- idealisticPursuing unrealistic standards
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
speculative · ivory-tower · armchair · academic · notional · conceptual · unrealistic · visionary · fanciful · imaginative
barrier
Obstruction preventing passage
- hindranceBarrier to progress
- impedimentThing that obstructs progress
- stumbling blockObstacle causing difficulty
roadblock · bottleneck · hurdle · snag · difficulty · encumbrance · constraint · limitation · deterrent · handicap
intricacy
State of elaborate complexity
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- elaboratenessState of being ornate
entanglement · knottiness · labyrinthine · byzantine · involved · multifaceted · tangled · thorny · cumbersome · unwieldy
- contract lawobligation, performance, capacity, breach, contract terms
- contract dischargedischarge, novation, rescission, termination, performance
- contract breachbreach of contract, contract breach, material breach, non-performance, repudiation
impracticabilitypracticability
Capability of being done
feasibility · workability · achievability · viability · possibility
impracticabilitypracticality
Quality of being useful
realism · pragmatism · applicability · operability · sensibleness
practice, practical, practiced, impractical, practically, practicality, practicable, impracticable, impracticality