possible

possible 1 Possible, practicable, feasible can mean capable of being realized.

Possible is used to dispel doubt that something may or does occur or exist or may come to exist

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the regime of religious toleration has become possible only because we have lost the primal intensity of religious conviction— Cohen

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although he still asserts that community of goods would be the ideal institution, he reluctantly abandons it as a basis for a possible state—Dickinson

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Practicable refers to what may be readily effected, executed, practiced, used, or put into operation

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trial by jury—an institution in which ... we have the very abstract and essence of all practicable democratic government— Mallock

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the only practicable tactics to be pursued were those of the routine police procedure— S. S. Van Dine

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Feasible may designate what is likely to work out or be put into effect successfully or what in a difficult situation seems the expedient least liable to fail

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cheap iron and steel made it feasible to equip larger armies and navies than ever before— Mumford

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only the most simple types of utilization are feasible— Van Valkenburg & Huntington

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Analogous words: practical, *practicable: *expedient, advisable

2 *probable, likely

Analogous words: credible, believable, colorable, *plausible: potential, dormant, *latent