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practicable
[ prak-ti-kuh-buhl ]
adjective
- capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible:
a practicable solution.
Synonyms: achievable, attainable, workable
Antonyms: unfeasible
- capable of being used:
a practicable gift.
- Theater. (of a stage property or part of a set) designed or constructed for actual use; a practicable window; practicable water faucets.
practicable
/ ˈpræktɪkəbəl /
adjective
- capable of being done; feasible
- usable
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Derived Forms
- ˈpracticably, adverb
- ˌpracticaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- practi·ca·bili·ty practi·ca·ble·ness noun
- practi·ca·bly adverb
- nonprac·ti·ca·bili·ty noun
- non·practi·ca·ble adjective
- non·practi·ca·ble·ness noun
- non·practi·ca·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of practicable1
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Origin of practicable1
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Example Sentences
His counterfactual musings don't provide any practicable, coherent or implementable alternatives.
It makes his prescriptions particularly powerful because they are practicable, if not a little ambitious.
ARIES Power of concentration is at a peak, percolating grains of ideas into practicable projects.
But what might have been very practicable for eight hundred and sixty men, was impossible for three hundred and sixty.
My coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.
A study of blood bacteriology is useful, but is hardly practicable for the practitioner.
It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.
But it was not, in fact, found practicable to avoid improving the accommodation, even for the able-bodied.
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