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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reasonable, practicable |
| Synonyms: | applicable, doable, feasible, operable, possible, usable, within possibility, workable |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unachievable, unpractical, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | animate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alive |
| Synonyms: | breathing, live, living, mortal, moving, viable, vital, zoetic |
| Antonyms: | dead |
| Main Entry: | arguable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tenable |
| Synonyms: | able to hold water, assertable, believable, conceivable, credible, defendable, defensible, feasible, imaginable, maintainable, rational, reasonable, supportable, sustainable, viable, workable |
| Antonyms: | untenable |
| Main Entry: | economic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | business-related; financial |
| Synonyms: | bread-and-butter, budgetary, commercial, fiscal, industrial, material, mercantile, monetary, money-making, pecuniary, productive, profit-making, profitable, remunerative, solvent, viable |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Main Entry: | feasible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | possible, doable |
| Synonyms: | achievable, advantageous, appropriate, attainable, beneficial, breeze, cinch, duck soup, easy as pie, expedient, fit, fitting, likely, no sweat, performable, pie, piece of cake, practicable, practical, probable, profitable, pushover, realizable, reasonable, simple as ABC, snap, suitable, viable, workable, worthwhile |
| Notes: | feasible means capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; possible means capable of happening or existing; probable means likely but not certain to be or become true or real |
| Antonyms: | impossible, inconceivable, unfeasible, unlikely, unpractical, unreasonable |
| Main Entry: | operable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | possible |
| Synonyms: | achievable, conceivable, doable, feasible, obtainable, practicable, realizable, serviceable, viable, workable |
| Main Entry: | operational |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | functional |
| Synonyms: | fit, in service, in working order, operative, practicable, practical, prepared, ready, serviceable, usable, useful, viable, workable, working |
| Main Entry: | possible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | likely, attainable |
| Synonyms: | accessible, achievable, adventitious, advisable, available, breeze*, can do, cinch, conceivable, credible, dependent, desirable, doable, dormant, duck soup, easy as pie, expedient, feasible, fortuitous, hopeful, hypothetical, imaginable, indeterminate, latent, no sweat, obtainable, piece of cake, potential, practicable, probable, promising, pushover, realizable, setup, simple as ABC, snap, thinkable, uncertain, viable, welcome, within reach, workable |
| Notes: | feasible means capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; possible means capable of happening or existing; probable means likely but not certain to be or become true or real possible means it could happen or be done; probable means it is likely to happen |
| Antonyms: | impossible, unattainable, ungettable, unlikely, unrealizable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | practicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | within the realm of possibility |
| Synonyms: | accessible, achievable, applicable, attainable, doable, employable, feasible, functional, handy, open, operative, performable, possible, practical, serviceable, usable, useful, utile, utilizable, viable, workable |
| Notes: | practical applies when what is in question is the conduct of affairs, whereas pragmatic applies when the question is the planning with respect to these affairs; practical is anything that can be done and is worth doing, while practicable is anything that can be done - worthwhile or not |
| Antonyms: | impossible, impracticable, unattainable, unreasonable, unworkable |
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