viable
Syllables: vi·a·ble/ˈvaɪəbəl/
viable adjective: able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
Adjective
viable (comparative more viable, superlative most viable)
- Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
- Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.
- a viable option
- 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".2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42
- Able to live and develop.
Noun
viable (plural viables)
- An organism that is able to live and develop.
viable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
viable in Hindi
- व्यवहार्य
viable in Tamil
- நடைமுறைக்கு இயன்ற, நிலைத்திருக்கத்தக்க, சாத்தியமான, ஈடேறக்கூடிய, ஒன்பேறக்கூடிய, வாழக்கூடிய
viable in Marathi
- व्यवहार्य
viable in Urdu
- نمو پذیر, زیستنی
More languagesFewer languages
- viable in Bengali
- টেকসই
- viable in Malayalam
- ജീവനക്ഷമമായ, പ്രയോഗസാദ്ധ്യമായ, സാദ്ധ്യമായ, കരണീയം
- viable in Kannada
- ಸಮಸ್ಯಾರಹಿತ, ಸುಗಮ, ವ್ಯವಹಾರ್ಯ, ಕಾರ್ಯಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದ
Examples of viable in a sentence
- The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
- This treaty, for all intents and purposes, is no longer viable.
- This treaty is to all intents and purposes no longer viable.
Antonyms of viable
Forms of viable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more viable |
| superlative | most viable |
| Noun | |
| plural | viables |
Origin of viable
Borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”).
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Questions about viable
- What does viable mean?
- Viable means able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
- What is viable in Hindi?
- Viable in Hindi is व्यवहार्य. See Viable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is viable?
- Viable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce viable?
- Viable is pronounced /ˈvaɪəbəl/.
Words near viable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: viable (page history and authors); viable (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); viable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viable (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); viable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); viable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); viable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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