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practicable

[ prak-ti-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. capable of being done, effected, or put into practice, with the available means; feasible:

    a practicable solution.

    Synonyms: achievable, attainable, workable

    Antonyms: unfeasible

  2. capable of being used:

    a practicable gift.

  3. 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

  1. capable of being done; feasible
  2. usable


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Derived Forms

  • ˌpracticaˈbility, noun
  • ˈpracticably, adverb

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Other Words From

  • practi·ca·bili·ty practi·ca·ble·ness noun
  • practi·ca·bly adverb
  • nonprac·ti·ca·bili·ty noun
  • non·practi·ca·ble adjective
  • non·practi·ca·ble·ness noun
  • non·practi·ca·bly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of practicable1

1660–70; < Medieval Latin practic ( āre ) to practice + -able

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Word History and Origins

Origin of practicable1

C17: from French praticable, from pratiquer to practise; see practical

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Example Sentences

“We look forward to hearing this item at the next practicable meeting of the Board of Directors, no later than September 30, 2022,” Gloria, Blakespear and Sotelo-Solis wrote.

It also requires districts to be contiguous and “as compact … as practicable,” criteria that certain districts in the new map may not satisfy.

The technology industry—produced and made wealthy by these immense advances in computing—has failed to imagine alternative futures both bold and practicable enough to address humanity’s gravest health and climatic challenges.

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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