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Nonviable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Not capable of living or developing: a nonviable fetus.

adj. Not workable or practicable: a nonviable idea.

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adj. Not viable: not capable of independent life; not practicable.

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adj. not capable of living or developing successfully

Word Usage

"It's remarkably easy to have a low infant-mortality rate when you claim that half of the dead babies you see were "nonviable" and don't count in the statistics."

Equivalent

dead

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