Definitions for viable

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viable vi·a·ble

Spelling: [vahy-uh-buh l]

IPA: /ˈvaɪ ə bəl/

Viable is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in viable (abeilv).

Definitions for viable

adjective

1. capable of living.
2. Physiology. physically fitted to live. (of a fetus) having reached such a stage of development as to be capable of living, under normal conditions, outside the uterus.
3. Botany. able to live and grow.
4. vivid; real; stimulating, as to the intellect, imagination, or senses:
5. practicable; workable:
6. having the ability to grow, expand, develop, etc.:

Origin of viable

1820-30; French, equivalent to vie life (Latin vīta) + -able -able

Examples for viable

Well, many men do go through difficult patches in their relationships, I suppose, when ‘anyone but her’ seems a viable option.

But Mr. Shaw will not mould his material into viable shapes.

I put on a good deal of it and there were at least some viable grains in the lot.

In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice.

Fortunately,once projects are proven to be viable, Wall Street rushes in.

“If this is going to be a viable project, the voices from the public are extremely important,” she says.

In the second case the cancer is operable and the child is viable.

If the child is viable it must be delivered as quickly as possible.

Second, building a viable solar industry is as much about financial and policy engineering as it is about electrical engineering.

They are considered only to the extent that they are viable consumers.