See impracticable on Wiktionary
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"im‧prac‧ti‧ca‧ble"
]
}
],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages using etymon with no ID",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Pages with etymology trees",
"Pages with etymon",
"Rhymes:Spanish/able",
"Rhymes:Spanish/able/5 syllables",
"Spanish 5-syllable words",
"Spanish adjectives",
"Spanish entries referencing ambiguous etymons",
"Spanish entries with etymology texts",
"Spanish entries with etymology trees",
"Spanish entries with etymon",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish epicene adjectives",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish terms prefixed with in-",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"glosses": [
"impracticable"
],
"links": [
[
"impracticable",
"impracticable#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/impɾaɡtiˈkable/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ĩm.pɾaɣ̞.t̪iˈka.β̞le]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-able"
}
],
"word": "impracticable"
}
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