viable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of life or normal growth and development

   viable seeds

2. 2
   adj

   Able to be done, possible, practicable, feasible.

   a viable option

3. 3
   adj

   Capable of working successfully

   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. 4
   adj

   capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

5. 5
   adj

   Able to live on its own (as for a newborn).

6. 6
   adj

   Able to live and develop.

7. 7
   noun

   An organism that is able to live and develop.

Etymology

Borrowed from French viable (further from Latin vīta), with semantic influence of Latin viābilis (“passable”).