The English Oracle

What is the difference between "unfeasible" and "infeasible"?

--------------------------------------------------
Rise to the top 3% as a developer or hire one of them at Toptal: https://topt.al/25cXVn
--------------------------------------------------

Music by Eric Matyas
https://www.soundimage.org
Track title: Magic Ocean Looping

--

Chapters
00:00 What Is The Difference Between &Quot;Unfeasible&Quot; And &Quot;Infeasible&Quot;?
00:22 Accepted Answer Score 18
00:51 Answer 2 Score 2
01:09 Thank you

--

Full question
https://english.stackexchange.com/questi...

--

Content licensed under CC BY-SA
https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/lice...

--

Tags
#differences #adjectives #negativeprefixes

#avk47



ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 18


Jacking the Link From The Comment (Thanks Josh61), It seems that the words are interchangeable, and it matters not which you choose to use, and is completely down to preference.

One interesting thing to note is that the variant with the "un" prefix was the most common, until the 1970's when the "in" prefix shot past it by a long way. It would be interesting to know the reason for this, but I guess that is a question for another time.




ANSWER 2

Score 2


It seems preferable to use infeasible as an adjective, as in, "the infeasibility of the project became apparent", and unfeasible as an adverb, as in, "completion of the project within the timeframe became unfeasible."