feasible

[ fee-zuh-buh l ]

/ ˈfi zə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.

probable; likely: a feasible theory.

suitable: a road feasible for travel.

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Origin of feasible

1425–75; late Middle English feseable, faisible < Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to fes-, fais- (variant stem of faire < Latin facere to do) + -ible -ible

SYNONYMS FOR feasible

1. See possible.

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fea·si·bil·i·ty, fea·si·ble·ness, nounfea·si·bly, adverbnon·fea·si·bil·i·ty, nounnon·fea·si·ble, adjective

non·fea·si·ble·ness, nounnon·fea·si·bly, adverbun·fea·si·bil·i·ty, nounun·fea·si·ble, adjectiveun·fea·si·ble·ness, nounun·fea·si·bly, adverb

Can be confusedfeasible viable

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Examples from the Web for feasible

Cooperating with Assad is also the only feasible way, at present, to lessen the humanitarian nightmare in Syria.
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She “was better at impugning our choices…than identifying any feasible alternatives.”
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As the US has found, world domination is not a feasible project any more, if it ever was.
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He told his class at the beginning that marketing such a shoe was “85 percent feasible.”
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Serious scientists began to argue it would be feasible to grow meat in a lab in recent decades.
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After this we followed parallel tracks wherever this was feasible.
The Cruise of the 'Alerte'|E. F. Knight
All, however, were ready to act, when a feasible plan should be proposed.
My Bondage and My Freedom|Frederick Douglass
From the south side the descent, though wearisome, is feasible.
Our Italy|Charles Dudley Warner
To her inexperience desperate remedies had seemed so simple, so feasible—the factors of life so few and unentwined.
The Daughters of Danaus|Mona Caird
That Elodie should accompany him was the only feasible way, from the pecuniary point of view, of carrying out the vague scheme.
The Mountebank|William J. Locke

British Dictionary definitions for feasible

feasible

/ (ˈfiːzəbəl) /

adjective

able to be done or put into effect; possible

likely; probablea feasible excuse

Derived Formsfeasibility or feasibleness, nounfeasibly, adverb

Word Origin for feasible

C15: from Anglo-French faisable, from faire to do, from Latin facere

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Word Origin and History for feasible

feasible

adj.

"capable of being done, accomplished or carried out," mid-15c., from Anglo-French faisible, from Old French faisable "possible, easy, convenient," from fais-, stem of faire "do, make," from Latin facere "do, perform" (see factitious). Fowler recommends this word only for those "who feel that the use of an ordinary word for an ordinary notion does not do justice to their vocabulary or sufficiently exhibit their cultivation."