"Impractical" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 酸 |  suān | sour / tart / sick at heart / grieved / sore / aching / pedantic / impractical / to make sarcastic remarks about sb / an acid |   |
| 架空 | jià kōng | to build (a hut etc) on stilts / to install (power lines etc) overhead / (fig.) unfounded / impractical / (fig.) to make sb a mere figurehead | |
| 不切实际 | bù qiè shí jì | unrealistic / impractical | |
| 不切合实际 | bù qiè hé shí jì | impractical / not conforming to reality | |
| 迂拙 | yū zhuō | stupid / impractical | |
| 迂远 | yū yuǎn | impractical | |
| 花拳绣腿 | huā quán xiù tuǐ | flowery of fist with fancy footwork (idiom) / highly embellished and ineffectual / fancy but impractical skills / all show and no go / pugilistic wankery | |
| 大而无当 | dà ér wú dàng | grandiose but impractical (idiom) / large but of no real use | |
| 削足适履 | xuē zú shì lu:3 | to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom) / to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) / impractical or inelegant solution | |
| 空想家 | kōng xiǎng jiā | impractical dreamer | |
| 迂儒 | yū rú | unrealistic / pedantic and impractical | |
| 迂滞 | yū zhì | high-sounding and impractical | |
| 迂论 | yū lùn | unrealistic argument / high flown and impractical opinion | |
| 迂阔 | yū kuò | high sounding and impractical / high flown nonsense | |
