viable

From French, from Medieval Latin *vītābilis (“capable of life”), from Latin vīta (“life”); see vital.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəbəl/

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• Rhymes: -aɪəbəl
• Hyphenation: vi‧a‧ble

viable (comparative more viable, superlative most viable)

1. Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).
2. Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.

   a viable option

3. Capable of working successfully
   • 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:

     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. (biology) Able to live and develop.

• inviable

• viability

viable (plural viables)

1. (biology) An organism that is able to live and develop.

• viable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “viable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

viable (plural viables)

1. viable, feasible

• → Portuguese: viável

• “viable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjable/ [ˈbja.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: via‧ble

viable (plural viables)

1. viable

• “viable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014