Practicable

Word PRACTICABLE
Character 11
Hyphenation prac ti ca ble
Pronunciations /ˈpɹæktɪkəbəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Practicable"

What do we mean by practicable?

Capable of being effected, done, or put into practice; feasible. synonym: possible. adjective

Usable for a specified purpose. adjective

Capable of being performed or effected; performable; possible in point of execution.

Capable of being practised.

Capable of being used: as, a practicable road; a practicable breach.

In theatrical, capable of real use, in distinction from something merely simulated: as, a practicable door, bridge, or window.

Suitable for practice, fulfilment, or execution; hence, desirable; advantageous.

Synonyms Practical, Practicable (see impracticable). Possible, Practicable, Possible notes that which may or might be performed if the necessary powers or means can or could be obtained; practicable is limited to things which may be performed by the means that one possesses or can obtain.

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible adjective

Capable of being used; passable adjective

A breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party. adjective

Capable of being accomplished; feasible. adjective

Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy. adjective

Available for use; accessible or employable. adjective

Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are adjective

Usable for a specific purpose adjective

Capable of being accomplished; feasible.

Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.

Available for use; accessible or employable.

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The word "practicable" in example sentences

We might at least remember that what we call practicable justice has never yet attained the gracious results of Christ's romantic justice. ❋ William J. Dawson (1891)

Order and privilege are condemned; total democracy, as direct as practicable, is the professed radical ideal. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Atlantic unity, with bonds as loose as we have them, as tight as may be practicable, is a safer bet than European union. ❋ Unknown (1950)

In the case of the King, the only amends practicable is the restoration of the Ministers possessing the confidence of the country. ❋ Unknown (1910)

When a government takes control of a failing firm and injects capital but with the plan to divest as soon as practicable, that is a receivership/conservatorship, not socialism. abb1 says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with blood guiltiness. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

It assumes that to be practicable, which is impossible, namely, that there can be freedom with slavery, union with injustice, and safety with bloodguiltiness. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

This route was described as practicable for camels, and ran through lands belonging to tribes whose headmen were with me, a fact which should, I thought, ensure our being free from attack. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)

They were therefore requested to engage a suitable person, and on the best terms practicable, and cause him to be on the premises as early as the 1st of December next. ❋ Charles Lee (1915)

It might indeed be called a practicable waltz lavishly adorned. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

After passing through the valley, they reached the Sierra, as the Brazilians term the practicable mountain-summits. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

Many of them began to think that Cavalier had been justified in seeking to secure the best terms practicable; and they dropped off, by tens and fifties, to join their former leader, whose head-quarters for some time continued to be at Vallabergue, an island in the Rhône a little above Beaucaire. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Let us cease to use every thing, as far as it is practicable, that is not the product of our own soil and workshops -- not an axe, or a broom, or bucket, from Connecticut. ❋ Unknown (1857)

I am just in rect. your esteemd. favor of the 4th:, ordering some articles for Mr. Long, one of the Professors of the University, which I will attend to particularly, & procure the articles on the most reasonable terms practicable, which shall be forwarded to you, with the bill, when in readiness ❋ Unknown (1825)

Lord's day is evidently the fittest and most effectual mean to this end; but yet it was not practicable, that is the mean did not exist till the ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

I would personally advocate a ballot measure giving the citizens a choice: either repeal IX. 9 or cause it to be enforced as written, without considering political pressure against spending to be a legitimate limit on what is considered "practicable". ❋ Unknown (2009)

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