The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ABSTRACT , but the solution may also be ACADEMIC which is one of the most recent solution (2004 in LA Times).
Not practical crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ABSTRACT | 33 % | 8 |
| ACADEMIC | 33 % | 8 |
| THEORETICAL | 33 % | 11 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Not practical
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- impractical
- unworkable
- infeasible
- untenable
- unforgivable
- unjustifiable
- ungovernable
- impracticable
- outstanding
- unapproachable
- venture
- inaccessible
Crossword Answer definitions
ABSTRACT noun- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
- An abstract work of art.
- A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- To separate; to disengage.
- To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- To extract by means of distillation.
- To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To withdraw oneself; to retire.
- To draw off (interest or attention).
- To perform the process of abstraction.
- To create abstractions.
- To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- Derived; extracted.
- Drawn away; removed from; apart from; separate.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- Absent-minded.
- Pertaining to the formal aspect of art, such as the lines, colors, shapes, and the relationships among them.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting an intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Of a class in object-oriented programming, being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result ABSTRACT
- Hard to understand
- Like a Jackson Pollock painting
- Not practical
- Summary.
- Designating some painting.
- Summarize.
- Kind of painting.
- Brief
- Theoretical
- Part of a science journal
More clues leading to the result ACADEMIC
- One who hits the books
- Not really practical
- University professor
- Not directly useful
- Ivory tower inhabitant
- Hypothetical
- Of college life
- Theoretical
- Hypothetical, as a question
- Campus figure