non-practical
adjective
(alsononpractical)uk/ˌnɒnˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us/ˌnɑːnˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/relatingtoideasorimaginationratherthanexperience,realsituations, oractions:
Traditionaleducationinvolvedlearninga lot of non-practicalstuff.
I don't usuallyreadnon-practicalbooks.
involvingwriting ortalkingratherthan doing things:
Theclasssizesfor non-practicalsubjectshavesteadilyincreased.
I got a highscoreon the non-practicalpartof thetest.
- Speakingactuallyfulfilsanumberof nonpracticalfunctions.
- We should be taking non-practicalconsiderationsintoaccountas well asconsideringtheeconomicbenefitsof theproject.
- There might have been a non-practicalreasonwhy thecitywasbuilton thissite.
Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- anthropocentrism
- anti-Darwinian
- anti-Darwinism
- brainwave
- foundation stone
- great minds think alikeidiom
- hunch
- hypothesis
- idea
- ideologue
- nonconceptual
- nostrum
- opinion
- panspermia
- perception
- theory
- thinking
- trope