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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.

Additional info about word: 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. 2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road. Practicable breach , a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party. Syn. -- Possible; feasible. -- Practicable, Possible. A thing may be possible, i. e., not forbidden by any law of nature, and yet may not now be practicable for want of the means requisite to its performance. -- Prac"ti*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Prac"ti*ca*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRACTICABLE)

• Feasible
• Possible
• manageable
• contrivable
• permissible
• practicable
• Easy
• feasible
• possible
• docile
• tractable
• Practicable
• likely
• potential

Related words: (words related to PRACTICABLE)

• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• 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.
• POTENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
• POTENTIALLY
  1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
• CONTRIVABLE
  Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.
• LIKELY
  1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to
• 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;
• TRACTABLE
  1. Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner. I shall find them tractable enough. Shak. 2. Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable
• 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.
• DOCILE
  1. Teachable; easy to teach; docible. 2. Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.
• 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.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• 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.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• INTRACTABLE
  Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child. Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable;
• ATTRACTABLE
  Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.
• 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.
• INDOCILE
  Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.
• IMPERMISSIBLE
  Not permissible.
• UNDEFEASIBLE
  Indefeasible.