performable
- adjective
- /pərˈfɔːrməbl/
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actuable
- After several adjustments, the music is now performable for the upcoming concert.
If you can get that story into shape so that it's performable and grabs the audience, then it works.
- If you can get that story into shape so that it's performable and grabs the audience, then it works.
Examples
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If you can get that story into shape so that it's performable and grabs the audience, then it works.
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Unfortunately, however, many of the music examples we want to share with students are not performable by the teacher in the classroom.
Academic text (1996) -
If you can get that story into shape so that it's performable and grabs the audience, then it works.
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So, relax and let's think about our life and try to find reasonable and performable ways to help this movement or concept in making our world much better by our actions, not just by our words and claims!
Blog text (6) -
I'm curious as to how much actual notation they had to work with in both cases and how much speculative reconstruction they engaged in to make the music performable.
Blog text (21) -
First, they incorporate scripts that participants know to be performable, in which they know the parts and collaborative routines required, and of whose requisites and possible outcomes they share at least some awareness; all these features facilitate the mobilization of participants for a new performance.
Academic text (1998) -
Rigg is correct that Webster, in her final drama, winnows down the text to a performable length, adds more explicit stage directions, and takes more care for the visual picture on the stage; in effect, she fashions the text of her play to be more like a script than a book.
Academic text (2017) -
The thought of getting up and playing with Vincent and Kerry, or going to a supermarket, or planting a bulb, or frying an egg—these were outside the realm of the performable.
Fiction book (1996) -
The director said the play was finally at a performable level after weeks of rehearsal.
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We need to make sure that the choreography is performable by all the dancers in the company.
Synonyms
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1.8
Possible to finish with effort
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7.4
Suitable to be performed on stage, like a scene or role
Relating to acting or other work shown on stage
Something you can do
Antonyms
How Feasible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word performable comes from perform ('to carry out' or 'act'), which is related to the common word form ('shape' or 'make'), and the ending -able ('can be done'). So, performable means something 'can be acted or carried out', like a play that can be put on stage.