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practicability
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feasibility, likelihood; chance |
| Synonyms: | achievability, action, attainableness, break, circumstance, contingency, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fling*, fluke, fortuity, happening, hazard, hope, incident, instance, liability, likeliness, occasion, occurrence, odds, opportunity, outside chance, plausibility, play*, potentiality, practicability, prayer*, probability, prospect, risk*, shot*, stab*, toss-up, workableness |
| Antonyms: | impossibility, impossible, unfeasibility, unlikelihood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utility |
| Synonyms: | advantage, convenience, helpfulness, practicability, practicality, profitableness, serviceability, usability, value, versatility |
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| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accessible, achievable, apt to, at the mercy of, attainable, compatible, compossible, conceivable, contingent, credible, dependent on, exposed to, feasible, in danger, in posse, incident to, incidental, liable, magari, obnoxious to, obtainable, on the cards, on the dice, open to, peradventure, performable, possible, practicable, subject, superable, surmountable, tessarian, unexempt from, within range of, within reach, within the bounds of possibility
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| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adequate, advantageous, applicable, at hand, available, commodious, conducive, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expedient, functional, gainful, good for, handy, in use, instrumental, intarrisable, intermediate, intervening, mechanical, mediatorial, ministerial, of all work, of use, polychrestic, proficuous, profitable, prolific, qua, remunerative, serviceable, subservient, subsidiary, tangible, useful, valuable, well, worth one's salt
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| Concept: | Possibility. |
| Category: | Degrees of Evidence |
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-nouns
possibility, potentiality; what may be, what is possible; compatibility (agreement)., practicability, feasibility; practicableness contingency, chance [more].
-verbs
be possible; stand a chance; admit of, bear., render possible; put in the way of.
-adjectives
possible; in the cards, on the dice; in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable, credible; compatible; likely., practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within measurable distance; accessible, superable, surmountable; attainable, obtainable; contingent (doubtful), (effect) [more].
-adverbs
possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure; maybe, may be, haply, mayhap., if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D.V.; as luck may have it.
-phrases
misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent; "the glories of the Possible are ours" [B. Taylor].
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| Antonyms: | impossibility |
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| Concept: | Probability. |
| Category: | Degrees of Evidence |
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-nouns
probability, likelihood; credibleness; likeliness., vraisemblance, verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence; credibility., reasonable chance, fair chance, good chance, favorable chance, reasonable prospect, fair prospect, good prospect, favorable prospect; prospect, wellgrounded hope; chance.
-verbs
be probable; give color to, lend color to; point to; imply (evidence); bid fair (promise); stand fair for; stand a good chance, run a good chance., think likely, dare say, flatter oneself; expect; count upon (believe).
-adjectives
probable, likely, hopeful, to be expected, in a fair way., plausible, specious, ostensible, colorable, ben trovato, well-founded, reasonable, credible, easy of belief, presumable, presumptive, apparent.
-adverbs
probably; belike; in all probability, in all likelihood; very likely, most likely; like enough; ten to one; apparently, seemingly, according to every reasonable expectation; prima facie; to all appearance (to the eye).
-phrases
the chances, the odds are; appearances are in favor of, chances are in favor of; there is reason to believe, there is reason to think, there is reason to expect; I dare say; all
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| Antonyms: | improbability |
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