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irrealizable
adjective as in impossible
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Strong match
adjective as in impractical/impracticable
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Weak matches
adjective as in unattainable
Strongest matches
adjective as in unnegotiable
Weak matches
- abstract
- absurd
- chimerical
- idealistic
- illogical
- impossible
- impractical
- improbable
- inapplicable
- inefficacious
- infeasible
- inoperable
- 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
adjective as in unrealizable
Weak matches
- absurd
- beyond
- contrary to reason
- cureless
- futile
- hardly possible
- hopeless
- hundred-to-one
- impassable
- impervious
- impracticable
- impractical
- inaccessible
- inconceivable
- inexecutable
- infeasible
- insurmountable
- irreparable
- no-go
- no-win
- not a prayer
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- unattainable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unreasonable
- unrecoverable
- unthinkable
- unworkable
- useless
- visionary
- way-out
adjective as in unusable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in unworkable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in unworkable
Weak matches
- beyond
- contrary to reason
- cureless
- hardly possible
- hopeless
- hundred-to-one
- impervious
- impracticable
- inaccessible
- inconceivable
- inexecutable
- infeasible
- insurmountable
- irreparable
- no-go
- no-win
- not a prayer
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unrealizable
- unrecoverable
- visionary
- way-out
Example Sentences
At present, as a more recent moralist, Ellen Key, puts it, we only have an immorality which favors vice and makes virtue irrealizable, and, as she exclaims with pardonable extravagance, to preach a sounder morality to the young, without at the same time condemning the society which encourages the prevailing immorality, is "worse than folly, it is crime."
We abase ourselves in our littleness, and we do right; yet it may be that the constancy of one heart, the truth and faith of one mind according to the light He has appointed, import as much to Him as the just motion of satellites about their planets, of planets about their suns, of suns around that mighty unseen centre incomprehensible, irrealizable, with strange mental effort only divined.
For, without men, he was simply tantalized with the aspirations roused in him by the knowledge that he had abundance of means, which were irrealizable without carriers.
Though Claes is, as much as Grandet, and perhaps more, an abnormal being, his sacrifice of every duty of life to the pursuit of the irrealizable is common enough in humanity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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