viable

viable
I adjective acceptable, actable, alive, appropriate, apt, capable of development, capable of growth, conceivable, doable, effective, effectual, efficacious, encouraging, expedient, favorable, feasible, functional, imaginable, legitimate, likely, living, logical, operative, performable, plausible, possible, potential, practicable, practical, promising, propitious, reasonable, sensible, sound, suitable, thinkable, usable, useful, valid, vital, workable II index live (conscious), permissible, possible, virtual

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


viable
adj.
(1) Feasible; able to work.
(2) Of a fetus, capable of living outside its mother’s womb, with or without artificial life support.
n.
viability

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