practicable

• practiceable
• practisable, practiseable (rare)

Borrowed from Latin prācticābilis, partly modelled on Middle French praticable.^[1] By surface analysis, practice (verb) +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹæktɪkəbəl/

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practicable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being accomplished; feasible.
   • 1986, Fred Matheny, Solo Cycling: How to Train and Race Bicycle Time Trials, page 136:

     The law in most states says that cyclists must ride as far to the right as is practicable.

   • 2010 September 13, Publishers Weekly, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians‎:

     This sober and unflinching analysis should be read and reckoned with by anyone concerned with practicable change in the long-suffering region.

   • 2023 May 4, Jack Bantock, “Tee-k Tock: The ‘appalling’ slow play controversy riling golf’s biggest stars”, in CNN‎:

     “The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.

   • 2025 January 21, Christian Edwards, “What is the World Health Organization and why does Trump want to leave it?”, in CNN‎:

     Monday’s executive order called on the secretary of state and director of the Office of Management and Budget to pause funding “with all practicable speed.”

2. Serving a useful function; useful, functional or handy.
3. Available for use; accessible or employable.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     I glanced up, — there was no trap door which led to the roof. No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.

Example of use contrasted with practical:

• "While others might agree that it was practical to rewrite the entire section, it was not truly practicable given other considerations."

• (capable of being accomplished): feasible, workable
• usable

• impracticable

• practicability
• practicableness
• practicably

• practical

From practicar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

practicable m or f (masculine and feminine plural practicables)

1. practicable, feasible

   Antonym: impracticable

• impracticable

• “practicable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “practicable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “practicable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “practicable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From practicar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /pɾaɡtiˈkable/
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: prac‧ti‧ca‧ble

practicable m or f (masculine and feminine plural practicables)

1. practicable, feasible

   Antonym: impracticable

• “practicable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10