workable(HAVING EFFECT)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not able to be achieved
impossibleThere's no way we'll be able to get the paperwork done in time – it's impossible.
unachievableThere is no point in setting unachievable goals for yourself.
unattainableThese bodybuilders are chasing an unattainable ideal – they'll never be as muscular as they want.
unfeasibleIt would be unfeasible to try to ban all petrol vehicles at the moment.
infeasibleThe company has promised a fully self-driving car in a year, but engineers say it is technically infeasible.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unachievable
be (a) no goidiom
be on a hiding to nothingidiom
be on the road to nowhereidiom
be out of your leagueidiom
cat
ghost
goodbye
impossibility
impossible
impracticable
impracticably
in/out of the runningidiom
league
running
silk
unachievable
unattainable
unfeasible
unfeasibly
unrealizable

unworkable | American Dictionary

unworkable
adjective
us/ʌnˈwɜr·kə·bəl/
(of a plan or a system) not practical or able to operate effectively:
The budget was considered unworkable and had to be revised.

Examples of unworkable

unworkable
Pedagogically, it is simply unworkable to accept any and all utterances that students produce.
Indeed, it would come to be taken for granted that the whole project was morally unacceptable (as well as scientifically unworkable).
In fact, so little is assumed that the traditional marginal approach to optimization becomes unworkable.
In polder areas, this system came to be regarded as either unfair or unworkable.
The optimal planning problem can include a multiplicity of solutions for which computation may be untractable, most of them being unworkable.
However, it proved to be unworkable because the flow is sensitive to random perturbations in the laboratory and could detach itself suddenly without apparent cause.
The failure of the alliance has been attributed to the discord caused by communal conflict within the ministry, which made the coalition unworkable.
Mobility-related exclusion acts to exclude this population, from opportunities, services and social networks - yet merely increasing people's physical mobility is, largely, both unworkable and undesirable.
In any language there are some regularities of structure that are, even so, frequently and properly contravened, since without them the language would be unworkable.
I argue that most versions of this suggestion are unworkable, and that even the best version is less plausible than pure subjectivism.
A complex polyphony would clearly be unworkable in this case.
They would be unworkable monstrosities with very few useful instincts, fewer recognizable sentiments, and no intellect: mental basket cases.
These involve burying sensitive or contentious issues likely to give rise to irreconcilable differences that threaten to make democracy unworkable.
The definition does not, however, ensure a minimal standard of mental health because, given widely disparate resource levels, a single international standard would be unworkable.
Are those different traditions necessarily leading to conflicting values and unworkable or partial evaluation frameworks?
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