Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not feasible; impracticable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not feasible; incapable of accomplishment; impracticable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
feasible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of being carried out or put into practice
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Examples
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Slowing down energy consumption is economically and politically infeasible.
Steven Cohen: Can Andrew Cuomo Meet the Leadership Challenge of Hydrofracking Policy? Steven Cohen 2011
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These woes are combined with a fiscal crisis that makes any major new spending initiatives politically infeasible and economically suspect.
Zvi Or-Bach: How to Create American Jobs Zvi Or-Bach 2011
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It is not unreasonable to routinely observe the outside movements of one suspect, yet it could very well be unreasonable to routinely observe the outside movements of a very large number of people (a historically infeasible practice which technology has made more feasible).
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He would also be well within the law to declare that the EPA's rules are technologically infeasible.
An EPA Moratorium 2011
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Daron and James argue that this alternative is infeasible because of a time consistency problem.
Shimer on Acemoglu, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Sometimes even the most thought out idea may look like crakpot now or infeasible.
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On the contrary, this announcement should encourage the non–Annex I "developing" countries, which have been insisting on a second commitment period, to begin to accept the reality that with the United States, Japan, Russia, and now Canada on record as not endorsing a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, it is infeasible for the European Union to go it alone.
Robert Stavins: Canada's Step Away From the Kyoto Protocol Can Be a Constructive Step Forward Robert Stavins 2011
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On the contrary, this announcement should encourage the non–Annex I "developing" countries, which have been insisting on a second commitment period, to begin to accept the reality that with the United States, Japan, Russia, and now Canada on record as not endorsing a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, it is infeasible for the European Union to go it alone.
Robert Stavins: Canada's Step Away From the Kyoto Protocol Can Be a Constructive Step Forward Robert Stavins 2011
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Throw a couple errors into the mix and a dictionary attack on a string of characters with no breaks becomes computationally infeasible.
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It is absurd to think that the State/City Council/WSDOT, et al would even think of building a new bridge that was infeasible to put light rail on.
Report Says Current 520 Plan “Virtually Precludes” Rail in the Future « PubliCola 2010
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