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practicable

practicable

8 5.8
Possible to do successfully in real life
  • adjective
  • /ˈpræktɪkəbl/
translation icon : viable
  • We must work ever harder to find practicable, effective, meaningful solutions.
  • maximum practicable
  • practicable alternative
  • as practicable soon

Those things are all malleable and they are practicable.

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Examples

  • The district's goal was to select the least environmentally damaging practicable alternative.

    Academic text (1998)
  • A political code of conduct could therefore be a more practicable first step to promote relevant standards.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Not knowing whether such a transfer is practicable or not.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Fourth, the initial period of Use Restrictions must be as long as practicable, but not less than five years.

    Academic text (2001)
  • In neither group was it practicable to send foreign ministers to League meetings.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Our initial studies showed that, although the technique was practicable, the results were inconsistent.

    Academic text (1992)
  • We can require that the effluent be treated to the limits of available or practicable technology.

    Academic text (1996)
  • While they are by no means mutually exclusive, the former presents a more practicable and focused approach to spatial reconstruction.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Such informal and formal memberships helped to create habits of collaboration that made collective action practicable.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The engineers developed a practicable plan to improve the city's transportation system.

Synonyms

viable
vspracticable
177 5.4

Possible to do successfully with available resources

is about general doability, not limited to current resources
feasible
vspracticable
88 4.9

Possible to do or make happen

is the same possibility but without stressing ease
doable
vspracticable
51 1.8

Possible to finish with effort

is more about practical success than simple ease
workable
vspracticable
37 3.9

Possible to do successfully with the tools and conditions we have

is a more general term not focused on available means
achievable
vspracticable
33 3.2

Can be done successfully

focuses on being carried out in real conditions rather than theory
executable
vspracticable
4 5.8

Possible to do with the available money and time

focuses on successful practice rather than only available conditions
implementable
vspracticable
1 4.5

People can put it into practice in the real world

is broader and not only about practical execution
realizable
vspracticable
  • US
1 4.4

Possible to do or achieve

stresses success in practice rather than mere possibility
accomplishable
vspracticable
4.7

Something you can do

focuses on being possible to put into effect rather than only completion

Antonyms

impracticable
  • Formal
1 7.3

Not possible to do in real life because of problems

How Practical

workable
37 3.9
feasible
88 4.9
practicable
8 5.8
difficult
1.6
impracticable
  • Formal
1 7.3

Surface Forms

practicable positive

Morphology

practicable = practice (transparent) = practic + able

Formed by the productive combination of the base 'practice' and the adjectival suffix '-able', yielding 'able to be put into practice' which learners can infer.

Etymology

Practicable comes from the same root as the word practice, which originally meant 'to do'. So something practicable is 'able to be done' or workable in real life.