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| Main Entry: |
impractical/impracticable
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic |
| Synonyms: | abstract, absurd, chimerical, idealistic, illogical, impossible, impracticable, improbable, inapplicable, inefficacious, infeasible, inoperable, irrealizable, ivory-tower, no-go, nonfunctional, nonviable, not a prayer, otherworldly, out of the question, quixotic, romantic, speculative, starry-eyed, theoretical, unattainable, unbusinesslike, unfeasible, unreal, unserviceable, unusable, unwise, unworkable, useless, visionary, wild, won't fly |
| Antonyms: | practicable, practical, probable, realistic, reasonable, tenable, viable |
| Main Entry: | inquisitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curious |
| Synonyms: | analytical, big-eyed, challenging, forward, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitorial, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peering, personal, poking, presumptuous, probing, prying, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, sifting, snooping, speculative |
| Antonyms: | incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested |
| Main Entry: | pensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meditative, solemn |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, abstracted, attentive, cogitative, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, pondering, preoccupied, reflecting, reflective, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, shallow |
| Main Entry: | pure |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | theoretical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, philosophical, speculative, tentative, unproved |
| Antonyms: | applied |
| Main Entry: | reflective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thoughtful |
| Synonyms: | cogitating, contemplative, deliberate, meditative, pensive, pondering, reasoning, ruminative, speculative, studious |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | risky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous |
| Synonyms: | chancy, delicate, dicey, endangered, fraught with danger, going for broke, hairy*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, insecure, jeopardous, long shot, not a prayer, off the deep end, on slippery ground, on the spot, on thin ice, out on a limb, perilous, playing with fire, precarious, rocky, sensitive, speculative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, unhealthy, unsafe, unsound, venturesome, wicked, wide-open |
| Antonyms: | assured, certain, safe, sure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tentative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional, experimental |
| Synonyms: | acting, ad interim, conjectural, contingent, dependent, iffy, indefinite, makeshift, not final, not settled, on trial, open for consideration, probationary, provisional, provisionary, provisory, speculative, subject to change, temporary, test, trial, unconfirmed, undecided, unsettled |
| Antonyms: | certain, decisive, definite, final, sure |
| Main Entry: | theoretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hypothetical |
| Synonyms: | abstract, academic, analytical, as a premise, assumed, codified, conjectural, contingent, formalistic, formularized, general, ideal, idealized, ideational, ideological, imaginative, impractical, in the abstract, in theory, instanced, intellectual, logical, metaphysical, notional, on paper, pedantic, philosophical, postulated, presumed, problematical, pure, quixotic, speculative, suppositional, tentative, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unproved, unsubstantiated, vague |
| Notes: | empirical describes results determined by experiment and observed behavior or facts; theoretical describes results that are based on guesswork or hypothesis - and pragmatic is contrasted with theoretical on the grounds that the former proceeds from what is demonstrably practical, the latter from conjecture |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, factual, proven, real |
| Main Entry: | uncertain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, changeable |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ambivalent, chancy, conjectural, dubious, erratic, fitful, hanging by a thread, hazy, hesitant, iffy, incalculable, inconstant, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, insecure, irregular, irresolute, on thin ice, precarious, questionable, risky, speculative, touch and go, unclear, unconfirmed, undecided, undetermined, unfixed, unforeseeable, unpredictable, unreliable, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, up for grabs, up in the air, vacillating, vague, variable, wavering |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, determined, foreseeable, secure, sure, unchanging |
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