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feasible
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. [1913 Webster]"Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice." [1913 Webster]"It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions." [1913 Webster]
- Fit to be used or tilled, as land. R. Trumbull.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
feasible, adj.
1 practicable, possible; easily or conveniently done.
2 disp. likely, probable (it is feasible that it will rain).
1 practicable, possible; easily or conveniently done.
2 disp. likely, probable (it is feasible that it will rain).
Derivative
feasibly adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF faisable, -ible f. fais- stem of faire f. L facere do, make
THESAURUS
feasible
achievable, actable, adaptable, advantageous, advisable, applicable, appropriate, attainable, banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, compassable, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, doable, ductile, effective, effectual, efficient, expedient, favorable, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, flexible, foolproof, fructuous, good, handy, happy, likely, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, meet, negotiable, operable, opportune, overcomable, performable, pliable, pliant, politic, possible, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, proper, realistic, realizable, recommendable, right, seasonable, seemly, sensible, sortable, suitable, superable, surmountable, timely, to be desired, tractable, untroublesome, usable, useful, viable, well-timed, wieldable, wieldy, wise, workable, worthwhile, yieldingROGET THESAURUS
feasible
Facility
N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.Possibility
N possibility, potentiality, what may be, what is possible, compatibility, practicability, feasibility, practicableness, contingency, chance, V, be possible, stand a chance, admit of, bear, render possible, put in the way of, Adj, 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 barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, Adv, possibly, by possibility, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, maybe, may be, haply, mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D, 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 barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, 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, misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent, the glories of the Possible are ours, anything is possible, in theory possible, but in practise unlikely, possibility, potentiality, what may be, what is possible, compatibility, practicability, feasibility, practicableness, contingency, chance, V, be possible, stand a chance, admit of, bear, render possible, put in the way of, Adj, 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 barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, Adv, possibly, by possibility, perhaps, perchance, peradventure, maybe, may be, haply, mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D, 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 barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable), theoretically possible, 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, misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent, the glories of the Possible are ours, anything is possible, in theory possible, but in practise unlikely.For further exploring for "feasible" in Webster Dictionary Online