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feasible

UK/ˈfiː.zɪ.bəl/US/ˈfi.zə.bəl/
adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,945 of 15,258leans written

Feasible means actually possible to do with what you have. A feasible plan, technically feasible, not feasible.

It is about practicality rather than logic — something can be possible and not feasible, which is the whole distinction and the reason feasibility studies exist. It is used constantly in engineering and planning. Note the disputed second sense meaning plausible, as in a feasible explanation, which careful writers avoid; and that the Latin means doable, from facere.

Definitions of feasible

  1. 1adjectivefeasibleActually possible to do with what you have.B2+

    “Building a bridge across the lake would be expensive, but it's technically feasible.”

    synonyms: practicable, workable

feasible is a quality of practicality.

Also accepted in games: doable, viable

Where it comes from

Old French faisable comes from faire, to do, from Latin facere. Fact, factory and effect come from the same doing.

  1. Old French

    faisable — doable

  2. Latin

    facere

  3. Anglo-Norman

    fesable

  4. English, today

    feasible

Built from

  • faire · Old French — to do

From Anglo-Norman fesable, from Latin facere, Old French faisable (“doable”), from faire (“to do”) + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sharper Adjectives

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feasible in the wild

  • The most feasible access is by a 25-minute helicopter flight from Valemount.

    Fraser Pass

  • Capital market line (CML) is the tangent line drawn from the point of the risk-free asset to the feasible region for risky assets.

    Capital market line

  • So, in short: weak duality states that any solution feasible for the dual problem is a lower bound to the solution of the primal problem.

    Weak duality

  • Simply put, real utopian sociology is the study of feasible utopian models for society and pathways to achieve them.

    Real utopian sociology

  • The plan, I think, is quite feasible, my subsequent difficulties being due to faulty execution of the plan. 8.

    Chess Fundamentals· José Raúl Capablanca

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.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

the faire family

affairbenefit

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