impracticable

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I think the biggest risk in doing this for a VPN service is that the usage is impracticable given its nature and secrecy.

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Quick take

Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.

adjective

impassable (of a passage or road)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for impracticable.

adjective

Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.

adjective

impassable (of a passage or road)

Example sentences

I think the biggest risk in doing this for a VPN service is that the usage is impracticable given its nature and secrecy.

Could be impracticable depending on volume anyway, 18k (size of font in example) extra per message isn't nothing.

The Secretary of State is required to give notice to Mr Assange unless it is impracticable to do so.

Mass surveillance was impracticable 20 years ago, and is now fairly easy (at least on the internet).

At some point prices will make employing people there impracticable due to wages and commercial rental.

Seems like something out of which you may raise the hopes of many a marketing department, but which ultimately proves impracticable.

Car wise, well, that could be impracticable: 1) does one have a car in HK?

That would make large areas only livable if you brought your own water, even for bathing, basically making the area impracticable.

Whilst pockets of 'peak car' may exist in cities realising that the car is totally impracticable, there will be growth in more pointless journeys between pointless places beyond the realms of suburbia.

The government has gotten really good at making access to the law impracticable for anyone except those who have already read it (lawyers).

The university offers courses that would be quite impracticable to offer online.

When you start like that, you are in a completely impracticable spot.

Quote examples

"The university offers courses that would be quite impracticable to offer online." Which classes exactly would you classify as impractical?

("Do something you love" is actually quite impracticable as advice.) If you happen to love doing something remunerative, bully for you---but plenty of people have jobs they merely (if they're lucky!) like.

Sometimes it feels what we are seeing is Code becoming just like any other "asset" in the globalised economy: cheap - but not quality; just like the priors of clothing (disintegrating after a few washes), consumer electronics (cheap materials), furniture (Instagram-able but utterly impracticable), etc: all made for quick turn-overs to rake in more profit and generate more waste but none made to last long.