feasible
[fee-zuh-buh l]
- 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
See more synonyms for feasible on Thesaurus.com1. See possible.
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Examples from the Web for feasible
Contemporary Examples
Cooperating with Assad is also the only feasible way, at present, to lessen the humanitarian nightmare in Syria.
She “was better at impugning our choices…than identifying any feasible alternatives.”
As the US has found, world domination is not a feasible project any more, if it ever was.
He told his class at the beginning that marketing such a shoe was “85 percent feasible.”
Serious scientists began to argue it would be feasible to grow meat in a lab in recent decades.
Historical Examples
Whether or not the scheme was feasible at that time it is impossible to say.
You are to depart as soon as feasible: you know what that means.
What attractions are possible and feasible in the rural communities?
Rural Life and the Rural SchoolJoseph Kennedy
Even if it had been feasible—which I doubt—I would not have done so.
Nostromo: A Tale of the SeaboardJoseph Conrad
If it proves to be feasible, I can give Ashton a chance to make good as an engineer.
Out of the DepthsRobert Ames Bennet
feasible
- able to be done or put into effect; possible
- likely; probablea feasible excuse
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Word Origin
C15: from Anglo-French faisable, from faire to do, from Latin facere
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Word Origin and History for 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."
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