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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | impossible, impracticable, unattainable, unreasonable, unworkable |
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