workable

[wur-kuh-buhl]

adjective

1. practicable or feasible.

   He needs a workable schedule.

2. capable of or suitable for being worked. worked.

workable

/ ˈwɜːkəbəl /

adjective

1. practicable or feasible

2. able to be worked

Other Word Forms

• workability noun
• workableness noun
• unworkability noun
• unworkable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of workable¹

First recorded in 1535–45; work + -able

Example Sentences

Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both filed patents in February 1876 for what amounted to early, workable versions of the telephone.

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She added: "Peers are now doing the job MPs were unable to do, making sure this bill can be safe and workable."

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Defending the volume of amendments, Baroness Luciana Berger, who opposes assisted dying, told the BBC that evidence to the select committee "strongly refuted any suggestion this bill is either safe or workable".

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The rupture has complicated what looked like a workable plan less than two months ago, though investors think a rate cut at the Fed’s next meeting is still more likely than not.

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Gettleman said he crafted his order to be as “workable as possible given my finding that the conditions there don’t pass constitutional muster.”

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Related Words

• applicable 
• doable 
• practicable 
• practical 
• useful 
• viable