FEASIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feasible mean? 

• FEASIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective FEASIBLE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FEASIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEASIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

Synonyms:

executable; feasible; practicable; viable; workable

Similar:

possible (capable of happening or existing)

Derivation:

feasibility; feasibleness (the quality of being doable)

 Context examples 

But this was not judged feasible.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The researchers will continue their work to evaluate accessible eye components or fluids as feasible diagnostic testing sources.

(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)

Because the maneuver is effort and volume dependent, the patient must be encouraged to perform as vigorously as clinically feasible.

(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Should the scheme he had now sketched prove feasible, Silver, already doubly a traitor, would not hesitate to adopt it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Of course there is only one feasible explanation.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This observational technique was first proposed by the visionary English scientist John Michell in 1783, but it has only become feasible with recent technological improvements in telescopes and detectors.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is a feasible alternative for systemic delivery of orally inefficient drugs, such as peptide and protein drug molecules.

(Buccal Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

The medical student theory still appears to me to be the most feasible, but if you should have a few hours to spare I should be very happy to see you out here.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Overall, these findings indicate that early-life introduction of peanut-containing foods as a strategy to prevent the subsequent development of peanut allergy is both feasible and nutritionally safe, even at high levels of peanut consumption.

(Peanut allergy prevention strategy is nutritionally safe, NIH)

Is not the thing feasible?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)