unworkable
/ʌnˈwəːkəb(ə)l/
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American sound/ʌnˈwəːkəb(ə)l/
ʌnˈwəːkəbəl
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ʌn - ˈwəːkəbəl -> unworkable
Myanmar meaning
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unworkable /ʌn'wɜ:kǝbl / adj
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- ‘Part 3 introduces a scheme that is unworkable and unprincipled.’
- ‘The former Chief Inspector of Schools in Scotland has claimed his plans are unrealistic and unworkable.’
- ‘Workers previously rejected the firm's plans to reduce staffing levels on a voluntary basis as impractical and unworkable.’
- ‘One of my greatest strengths has always been the ability to make the apparently impossibly unworkable work.’
- ‘She is not one to be put off simply by senior police officers saying policy is unworkable and impractical.’
- ‘It is in nobody's interest that an unworkable scheme is introduced.’
- ‘Tell me, do you feel that there's a risk that her next addition to the canon may make impossible or unworkable some of the things you've come to need in your extension?’
- ‘The bill was not just excessive but also expensive, not just illiberal but impractical, not just unnecessary but unworkable.’
- ‘It also doesn't help when companies come up with complex and unworkable investment schemes that people don't understand.’
- ‘He said their proposals were too widely drawn, impractical and unworkable.’
- ‘As the costs rise and the race hate builds and the unworkable, self-defeating new scheme unravels, Labor will be mute.’
- ‘A theory that represents working practices as unworkable is a bad theory.’
- ‘This current system is unworkable, impractical and damaging to the physical and economic health of our once lovely Auld Grey Town.’
- ‘Not only would it be impractical and unworkable, I doubt whether anyone could seriously believe it.’
- ‘He said that it was more in farmers' interests than anyone else to have traceability but there was no point in trying to achieve that with a scheme that was unworkable.’
- ‘Critics say such a scheme is unworkable but already one example is working - or at least soon will be.’
- ‘The scheme is expensive, confused, unworkable and unrealistic.’
- ‘The film producer behind Chariots of Fire said the scheme was unworkable.’
- ‘The New Zealand Aquaculture Council believes that the provision is unrealistic and unworkable.’
- ‘If this decision stands, your Honours, the whole scheme is unworkable.’
Synonyms
not viable, impracticable, unusable, unfeasible, ineffectual, impractical, abstract, absurd, beyond, chimerical, contrary to reason, cureless, futile, hardly possible, hopeless, hundred-to-one, idealistic, illogical, impassable, impervious, impossible, improbable, inaccessible, inapplicable, inconceivable, inefficacious, inexecutable, infeasible, inoperable, insurmountable, irrealizable, irreparable, ivory-tower, no-go, no-way, no-win, nonfunctional, nonviable, not a prayer, otherworldly, out of the question, preposterous, quixotic, romantic, speculative, starry-eyed, theoretical, too much, unachievable, unattainable, unbusinesslike, uncorrectable, unimaginable, unnegotiable, unobtainable, unreal, unrealizable, unreasonable, unrecoverable, unserviceable, unthinkable, useless, visionary, way out, wild, won't fly
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