- not practical or workable: an impractical solution
- not given to practical matters or gifted with practical skills
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
im•prac•ti•cal /ɪmˈpræktɪkəl/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- not practical or useful:Running a household without a budget is impractical.[ it + be + ~ (+ for + obj) + to + verb]:It's impractical (for us) to run our household without a budget.
- incapable of dealing sensibly with ordinary matters:What an impractical professor; he can't even change a light bulb.
- idealistic:an impractical belief that everyone is good.[ it + be + ~ (+ for + obj ) + to + verb]:It's a bit impractical (for you) to hope that everyone will be nice to you.
- impracticable.
im•prac•ti•cal
(im prak′ti kəl),USA pronunciation adj.
im•prac′ti•cal′i•ty, im•prac′ti•cal•ness, n.
- not practical or useful.
- not capable of dealing with practical matters;
lacking sense. - idealistic.
- impracticable.
- im-2 + practical 1860–65
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
impractical /ɪmˈpræktɪkəl/ adj
'impractical' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
cloud-cuckoo-land
- do-gooder
- doctrinaire
- Don Quixote
- dreamy
- hippy-dippy
- otherworldly
- romantic
- theoretical
- think
- unpractical
- unreality
- visionary
- abstraction
- big idea
- blue-sky
- castle in the air
- cloud
- crackpot
- crazy
- dreamer
- fantastic
- formal
- Goldberg
- grandiose
- heuristic
- idealist
- ideology
- mad
- nowheresville
- pointy-headed
- quixotic
- reverie
- Rube Goldberg
- unreal
- Utopian
- viewy
- scheme
- screwy
- stargazer