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Viable

//ˈvaɪəbəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
  2. 2
    Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.

    "a viable option"

  3. 3
    Capable of working successfully

    "Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination"."

  4. 4
    Able to live and develop.
Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of life or normal growth and development wordnet
  2. 2
    capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    An organism that is able to live and develop.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”).

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