All 3 Uses of
practicable
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Early association with country solitudes had bred in him an unconquerable, and almost unreasonable, aversion to modern town life, and shut him out from such success as he might have aspired to by following a mundane calling in the impracticability of the spiritual one.†
Chpt 3impracticability = the quality of not being possible or not being usefulstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticability means not and reverses the meaning of practicability. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
- Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability.†
Chpt 5
- Tess could eventually join him there, and perhaps in that country of contrasting scenes and notions and habits the conventions would not be so operative which made life with her seem impracticable to him here.†
Chpt 5 *impracticable = not able to be done; or not usefulstandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in impracticable means not and reverses the meaning of practicable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
Definition:
capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
or more rarely:
usable for a specific purpose
or more rarely:
usable for a specific purpose