practicable
8
5.8
- adjective
- /ˈpræktɪkəbl/
:
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.
- Those things are all malleable and they are practicable.
- It means it's feasible, it's practicable.
- It doesn't correspond to a practicable measurement, I mean procedure to determine whether the process is reversible or not.
- If you've got a million cousins, not quite as practicable.
- And when you live this, not practice it because it's not a practicable.
Examples
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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
177
5.4
Possible to do successfully with available resources
88
4.9
Possible to do or make happen
51
1.8
Possible to finish with effort
37
3.9
Possible to do successfully with the tools and conditions we have
33
3.2
Can be done successfully
4
5.8
Possible to do with the available money and time
1
4.5
People can put it into practice in the real world
1
4.4
Possible to do or achieve
Something you can do
Antonyms
How Practical
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.