Feasible
['fiːzɪb(ə)l] or ['fizəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are .
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Definition
(a.) Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable.
(a.) Fit to be used or tailed, as land.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Practicable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Possible, manageable, contrivable, permissible, practicable
ANT:Impossible, unallowable
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Definition
adj. practicable.—ns. Feas′ibleness Feasibil′ity.—adv. Feas′ibly.
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Examples
- The more Adrian reasoned upon this scheme, the more feasible it appeared. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It certainly sounds feasible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- That looks feasible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Our present method is to discuss whether the proposals are right and feasible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yeobright did not wish to go there, but it was the only feasible opening. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Of course there is only one feasible explanation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Both these plans of propulsion seem feasible in design; but they have hitherto failed in practice. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- But this was not judged feasible. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He exhibited it in London, but after a short time gave up driving it, believing that the roads of England were too badly built to make the use of a steam-carriage feasible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An attack will not be feasible unless it is found that the enemy has detached largely. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Is not the thing feasible? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Was collective ownership of capital a feasible scheme? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For some years it was not found feasible to operate motors on alternating-current circuits, and that reason was often urged against it seriously. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But these tender schemes were not feasible among the scattered inhabitants of Egdon Heath. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- For I am quite ready to acknowledge that the plan which you propose, if only feasible, would do all sorts of good to the State. Plato. The Republic.
- There he gave an exhibition to the committee, but most of them doubted if his plans for sending long-distance messages were really feasible. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As he lived in barracks I was a little doubtful whether this was feasible, but we went out to reconnoitre. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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