doable

adjective

do·​able ˈdü-ə-bəl 

: able to be done or attained : achievable, possible

It will be difficult, but it's still doable.

You wouldn't want your first outside venture to be in Fiji or something. Pennsylvania is very doable. It's not far from here.

—Mitchel Etess

The format is arranged to present a dish's original recipe in Latin, then translate and modernize it so that it is more doable than not.

—Richard Flaste

Synonyms

• possible
• achievable
• feasible
• attainable
• viable

Examples of doable in a Sentence

the assignment will be just barely doable in the time allowed

Recent Examples on the Web

County staff will research and recommend which efforts are doable and how each would be funded, which could include county reserves, state and federal grants, philanthropic partnerships or a combination. —Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025

Rolling back to an older software version is doable, but a bit of a pain. —ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025

Things people didn’t realize [were] doable, but are. —Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

That’s more doable to build in a cascading workflow but not as reliable for one-step pipelines for the reasons stated above. —Arkadiy Telegin, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from don "to do entry 1" + -able -able

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for doable

• chewable
• viewable
• nonrenewable
• renewable
• reviewable

Kids Definition

doable

adjective

do·​able

ˈdü-ə-bəl

: capable of being done