English Explanatory Dictionary

unworkable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Not workable.
Not operable; not practical; unmanageable.
Not suitable or amenable for being manipulated or transformed.

noun

Something that is not workable, or cannot be made to work.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-unworkable.wav

Word forms

unworkable more unworkable most unworkable unworkables

Etymology

From un- + workable.

Synonyms

inoperable nonworking infeasible untenable unusable unprocessable

Antonyms

workable practicable

Related words

unworked

Derived words

unworkability unworkableness unworkably

Translations

Bulgarian: труден за работа French: inexécutable Greek: ανεφάρμοστος Manx: do-obbraghey Russian: несбы́точный Spanish: inviable Spanish: irrealizable Spanish: inhacedero Spanish: no factible

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