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Word Meanings - CONTRIVABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.

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  • MANAGEABLE
    Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile. -- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.
  • CONTRIVABLE
    Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.
  • POSSIBLE
    Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass;
  • FEASIBLE
    1. Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield. 2. Fit to be used or tailed, as land.
  • PERMISSIBLE
    That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- Per*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mis"si*bly, adv.
  • PRACTICABLE
    practicus active, Gr. practicable, pratiquer to practice. See 1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.
  • INDEFEASIBLE
    Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title. That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regal power. Macaulay.
  • COMPOSSIBLE
    Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
  • INFEASIBLENESS
    The state of quality of being infeasible; infeasibility. W. Montagu.
  • INCOMPOSSIBLE
    Not capable of joint existence; incompatible; inconsistent. Ambition and faith . . . are . . . incompossible. Jer. Taylor. -- In`com*pos`si*bil"i*ty, n.
  • IMPERMISSIBLE
    Not permissible.
  • UNDEFEASIBLE
    Indefeasible.
  • INFEASIBLE
    Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.
  • IMPRACTICABLENESS
    The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.
  • UNPOSSIBLE
    Impossible.
  • IMPOSSIBLE
    Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God
  • IMPRACTICABLE
    1. Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking. 2. Not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable;
  • UNPRACTICABLE
    Impracticable; not feasible.
  • DEFEASIBLE
    Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title. -- De*fea"si*ble*ness, n.

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