MEANING
1. Capable of working successfully or continuing to exist under the relevant conditions.
2. Able to continue living or to develop into a living organism under suitable conditions.
Use it for
evaluating whether a proposal can work in practice; qualifying an option’s prospects under stated constraints; distinguishing practical feasibility from desirabilityDistinguishes a workable option from an attractive but unworkable proposal, and separately records biological survival. Academic functions: Qualification / Uncertainty, Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- viable alternative
- viable proposal
- economically viable
On the page
The proposal remains a viable alternative only if the required administrative capacity is available.
The business analysis separates a viable operating model from one that merely attracts initial interest.
The methods discussion distinguishes viable organisms from genetic material detected in the sample.
The review considers how storage conditions affect the proportion of viable seeds.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- viable
Usage notes
Adjective: viable proposal, viable organism. More viable and most viable are natural for practical prospects; strict biological survival claims need stated conditions. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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