infeasible
adjective
in·fea·si·ble
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Definition of infeasible
: not feasible : impracticable
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Other Words from infeasible
infeasibility
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Examples of infeasible in a Sentence
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The new requirements could sharply decrease housing production by making housing projects financially infeasible, causing developers to go elsewhere and not build anything. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Should Mayor Faulconer veto new low-income housing rules?," 9 Aug. 2019 Nearly 50 other methods that were explored such as using contraceptives, individual traps, pathogens and others were deemed infeasible or unable to end the mouse problem for good. — Will Houston, The Mercury News, "‘Like dropping a nuclear bomb on this island’: Feds delay Farallon Islands poison airdrop bid," 11 July 2019 But even that effort is now under extreme strain, as labor unions and vocal Democrats are demanding major changes that might be politically infeasible. — Washington Post, "Twin challenges on budget, trade test withering Pelosi and Trump relationship," 10 July 2019 The computation of the single best answer for what is known as the traveling salesman problem is famously infeasible. — Quanta Magazine, "One-Way Salesman Finds Fast Path Home," 5 Oct. 2017 In a space of millions of points with thousands of coordinates each, computing all the necessary distances can become computationally infeasible. — Quanta Magazine, "How Geometry, Data and Neighbors Predict Your Favorite Movies," 22 May 2019 But such experiments have long been considered infeasible: Only photon-size entities can be put in quantum superpositions, and only ball-size objects have detectable gravitational fields. — Quanta Magazine, "Physicists Eye Quantum-Gravity Interface," 31 Oct. 2013 Car manufacturers rightly said the Cafe ramp-up was infeasible, so in August the Trump Administration proposed freezing the 2020 target of 37 miles per gallon through 2025. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Government Motors Is Back," 11 Nov. 2018 That makes the use of crossing arms infeasible, Patrick said. — Michelle Baruchman, The Seattle Times, "Traffic Lab mailbag: How to deal with parking limits when you go on vacation, what’s happening on 23rd Avenue?," 11 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'infeasible.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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