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Viable

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

adj. Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions.

adj. Capable of living outside the uterus. Used of a fetus or newborn.

adj. Capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable: a viable plan; a viable national economy. See Synonyms at possible.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Able to live on its own (as for a newborn.)

adj. Able to be done, possible.

adj. In (biology), able to live and develop.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Capable of living; likely to live; specifically, capable of continued existence outside of the womb: noting a fetus. Seeviability, 1.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

adj. capable of life or normal growth and development

Word Usage

"In what they referred to as a viable inside attack possible on locks geared for office settings, someone could borrow a key and shave tiny bit of metal from the tip and it would no longer catch the iLoq reset hook."

Equivalent

possible alive live

Antonym

inviable

Form

viability

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

liable pliable reliable undeniable unjustifiable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

feasible sustainable relevant workable legitimate