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not a prayer
adjective as in despairing
Strongest matches
adjective as in impossible
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in impractical/impracticable
Strongest matches
Weak matches
adjective as in insurmountable
adjective as in risky
Strongest 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
- irrealizable
- ivory-tower
- no-go
- nonfunctional
- nonviable
- 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
- irrealizable
- irreparable
- no-go
- no-win
- 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
- irrealizable
- irreparable
- no-go
- no-win
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unrealizable
- unrecoverable
- visionary
- way-out
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
Example Sentences
Finally, at the end of the ceremony, the king will receive a “spoken greeting in unison” — not a prayer — from religious leaders of other faiths.
A church reading group is now digesting “My Body is Not a Prayer Request,” a book about ableism in churches.
He said that, on a good day, Hernandez might collect 12 ballots. "1,700? Not a prayer in the world," Anton said.
He said that, on a good day, Hernandez might collect 12 ballots. “1,700? Not a prayer in the world,” Anton said.
It had something of the power of incantation, but it did not seem a compulsion, and it was not a prayer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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