doable
English
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Etymology
From Middle English doable, equivalent to do + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈduː.ə.bəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːəbəl
Adjective
doable (comparative more doable, superlative most doable)
- Possible to do; feasible; achievable.
- 2021 May 5, “Andy Burnham's speech to the TfN board meeting”, in RAIL, number 930, page 51:
- "I think this is embarrassing for the rail industry to put out non-workable options in a major public consultation that lots of people have given plenty of time to for then, at this stage, for us to be told that none of it was doable in the first place.
- 2025 May 21, Oliver Milman, “Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2026:
- The work will, for now, continue in a different, disparate form. “It’s doable but it is disruptive,” said Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at GISS.
- (slang) Worthy of sexual conquest.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:doable.
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Noun
doable (plural doables)
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