impracticables
Ideas that fail
Impracticables are things that cannot reasonably be done or put into practice.
The term appears most often in formal or legal contexts where certain options must be ruled out as unfeasible: The committee dismissed the more expensive proposals as impracticables.
While impractical suggests something merely unwise or inefficient, impracticable indicates genuine impossibility given real-world constraints.
Things blocking access
- hindrancesThings that obstruct progress
- impossibilitiesThings that cannot exist
- roadblocksObstructions blocking forward movement
- blockadesBarriers preventing passage
impediments · obstructions · unworkables · dead-ends · non-starters · showstoppers · dealbreakers · stumbling-blocks
Those with ambitious visions
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- utopiansAdvocates for ideal societies
- romanticsIdealists about love
- theoristsBuilders of explanatory frameworks
ideologues · fantasists · stargazers · head-in-clouds · ivory-tower
moonshots
Audaciously ambitious endeavors
- boondogglesWasteful, pointless undertakings
barriers
Things blocking access
- hindrancesThings that obstruct progress
- impossibilitiesThings that cannot exist
- roadblocksObstructions blocking forward movement
blockades · impediments · obstructions · unworkables · dead-ends · non-starters · showstoppers · dealbreakers · stumbling-blocks
dreamers
Those with ambitious visions
- visionariesThose who anticipate change
- utopiansAdvocates for ideal societies
- romanticsIdealists about love
theorists · ideologues · fantasists · stargazers · head-in-clouds · ivory-tower