viable C1 Topic:Plants & Agriculture US /ˈvaɪəbəl/ See IPA manual Freq #11817 Meanings 1 adj Able to be done successfully; workable. Solar power is now a viable option for many households. 2 adj Able to live, grow, or develop normally. Only the viable seeds were planted in the garden. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · able to be done... executablefeasiblepracticableworkable ↔ Opposites inviable Word family Derived forms nonviableviabilityviably Common collocations viable fetus Adjective + noun Etymology AI details Borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”). *gʷeyh₃- Proto-Indo-European viable French View etymology graph -> Topics Plants & Agriculture External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # viable **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ˈvaɪəbəl/ **Frequency rank:** 11817 ## Meanings 1. Able to be done successfully; workable. 2. Able to live, grow, or develop normally. ## Examples - Solar power is now a viable option for many households. - Only the viable seeds were planted in the garden. ## Antonyms - inviable ## Derived Forms - nonviable - viability - viably ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *gʷeyh₃- - Root: viable ## Etymology Borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”). ## AI Etymology Viable is borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”). The historical chain includes *gʷeyh₃- (Proto-Indo-European) and viable (French). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as nonviable, viability, and viably. In present use it covers able to be done successfully; workable and able to live, grow, or develop normally. ## Topics - Plants & Agriculture markdown