viable — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

2. Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.

   Examples

   a viable option

3. Capable of working successfully

   Examples

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   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. Able to live and develop.

Noun

1. An organism that is able to live and develop.

Adjective

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

   Synonyms

   feasibleexecutablepracticableworkable

2. capable of life or normal growth and development

   Examples

   viable seeds

   a viable fetus