impracticability

Questions about impracticability

What does impracticability mean?

impracticability means "the quality of not being usable".

How many syllables are in impracticability?

impracticability has 7 syllables: im-prac-ti-ca-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for impracticability?

Close synonyms include impracticableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of impracticability?

The recorded antonyms are practicability.

Is impracticability a common word?

impracticability is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.