1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.
2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road. Practicable breach (Mil.), a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party.
Syn.
— Possible; feasible.
— Practicable, Possible. A thing may be possible, i. e., not
forbidden by any law of nature, and yet may not now be practicable
for want of the means requisite to its performance.
— Prac"ti*ca*ble*ness, n.
— Prac"ti*ca*bly, adv.
PRACTICAL Prac"ti*cal, a. Etym: [L. practicus active, Gr. pratique, formerly also practique. Cf. Pragmatic, Practice.]
1. Of or pertaining to practice or action.
2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. Practical joke, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; esp., a trick played upon a person.
PRACTICALITY
Prac`ti*cal"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.