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capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.

The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.

Impracticable; not feasible.

Capable of being accomplished; practicable. Carlyle.

Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] "Fit for agible things." Sir A. Sherley.

metal. He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. Macaulay.

s, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

ll controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. -- Choir service, the service of singing performed by t…

A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter. [Colloq.]

Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.

a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.

ng, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

hings, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi. 6. Impossible quantity (Math.), an imagnary quantity. See Imaginar…

The state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility. Goldsmith.

In an impracticable manner. Morality not impracticably rigid. Johnson.

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

Ineffectual; impracticable. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.