unworkable

adjective

un·​work·​able ˌən-ˈwər-kə-bəl How to pronounce unworkable (audio)
: not workable : impractical
an unworkable plan/solution
unworkability noun
unworkably adverb

Examples of unworkable in a Sentence

the company decided that the proposed reorganization of its operations was unworkable due to high costs
Recent Examples on the Web When her plan for a federal ban on price gouging was rejected by economists as unworkable, her advisers downplayed the idea. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024 Saying something freshly substantive about female desire while honoring the film’s defining spirit of vapid, diaphanous horniness is a tricky, potentially unworkable brief. Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024 Existing models have a bad habit of hallucinating chemical structures that are bizarre or unworkable, much as ChatGPT hallucinates facts. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024 The Biden administration today is taking new steps to make insurers cover mental health on a par with physical health, rekindling a fight with health plans that say such requirements are unworkable amid a shortage of providers. Maya Goldman, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for unworkable 

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Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unworkable was in 1839

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“Unworkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unworkable. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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