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achievable

UK/əˈt͡ʃiːvəbəl/US/əˈt͡ʃivəbəl/
adjectiveB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,618 of 15,258leans written

Achievable means possible to bring about with the effort available. An achievable target.

It depends on the resources as much as on the goal, which is why the word appears in every plan. A target that is not achievable does more harm than no target at all.

Definitions of achievable

  1. 1adjectiveachievablePossible to bring about with the effort available.B2+

    “The deadline was achievable and everything else was not.”

achievable is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *kap-

  2. Middle English

    achieven

  3. English

    achieve

  4. English, today

    achievable

Built from

  • acheven · Middle English — to accomplish (something); to acquire or obtain (something); to carry out or finish (something); to succeed in (something); to happen, turn out
  • achiever · Old French — to accomplish (something); to finish (something); to succeed in (something)

From achieve + -able. achieve comes from Middle English achieven. From Middle English achieven, acheven (“to accomplish (something); to acquire or obtain (something); to carry out or finish (something); to succeed in (something); to happen, turn out”), from Anglo-Norman achever, achiever, Middle French achever, achiever, and Old French achever, achiever (“to accomplish (something); to finish (something); to succeed in (something)”) (modern French achever), and then from either of the following:

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

achievable in the wild

  • Back-spinning the ball and running it on is also achievable by the way in which the ball is set up on the tee.

    GolfCross

  • The plant's current achievable capacity is 5,102 MW.

    Bełchatów Power Station

  • Where complete evaporation in this fashion was not routinely achievable due to weather, salt was produced from the concentrated brine by boiling the brine.

    Saltern

  • The 2-star rating is the highest achievable rating for an artificial surface and is suitable for all UEFA competitions.

    Nuuk Stadium

  • Curative care or curative medicine is the health care given for medical conditions where a cure is considered achievable, or even possibly so, and directed to this end.

    Curative care

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the acheven family

achieve

achievable — used about once every 81,824 pages · #14,618 · point at the bar for the others

  • achievement