practicable

Capable of being accomplished; feasible.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being accomplished; feasible.
    • Those who have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this has rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a...
    • The law in most states says that cyclists must ride as far to the right as is practicable. - 1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page 136:
    • This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region. - 2010 September 13, Publishers Weekly, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on...
  2. Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.
  3. Available for use; accessible or employable.
    • I glanced up, — there was no trap door which led to the roof. No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand. - 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin prācticābilis, partly modelled on Middle French praticable. By surface analysis, practice (verb) + -able.

Forms

practiceable practisable practiseable

Synonyms

feasible workable usable

Antonyms

impracticable

Related

practical

Derived

practicability practicableness practicably unpracticable