Synonyms:
operable, practicable
Meaning: usable for a specific purpose; "an operable plan"; "a practicable solution"
Synonyms:
feasible, executable, practicable, viable, workable
Meaning: capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
Usage examples
No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.
If practicable, squeeze the bottom of the tuft, containing the neck of the funnel, with both hands.
It was no longer practicable wholly to conceal them from the family, and even from the neighbourhood.
If this or its equivalent be refused, reduce the fort as your judgment decides to be most practicable.
Referring to an application that had been made to him from Baltimore, I wrote: "Sustain Baltimore if practicable.
Such a scheme, if practicable at all, would instantly degenerate into a military despotism; but it will be found in every light impracticable.
It is reasonable to hope that before iron ore has become extremely scarce, a cheap and practicable method of extracting aluminium from clay will have been perfected.
And when the resolution was there taken to raise a bank against that part of the wall which was practicable, he sent his whole army abroad to get the materials together.
It is only when specially prepared iron oxide of exceeding fineness, and nickel hydrate conforming to certain physical, as well as chemical, standards can be made that the alkaline battery is practicable.
We must speak of things that are possible of performance in this world. There are many theories and high ideas on this subject, but they are not practicable; consequently, we must speak of things that are feasible.