unworkable
/ənwˈɝkəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not workable.
adj
Not workable.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: infeasible, untenable, unusable"
- "These plans seem unworkable; moreover, a budget for their implementation remains a fantasy."
- "A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are opposed to the approach being taken by the UK Government, which we feel is unnecessary, probably unworkable, and will do nothing to resolve industrial disputes."
- "Near-synonyms: unprocessable, unusable"
- "unworkable soils; unworkable clays; unworkable metals"
- "The building of the consensus group, however, forced these interests to distinguish annoying features of the law from unworkable ones, and the list of the unworkables steadily dwindled."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English work Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English workable English unworkable From un- + workable.