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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

unviable

US // (ʌnˈvaɪəbəl) //

不可行的,不可行,无法生存的,无法生存

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not capable of succeeding, esp financiallythe pit had proved economically unviable

Examples

  • The bad news is that NBC may consider Community to be expendable or financially unviable.

  • May the physician call in a physician who, he knows, will not scruple to perform the therapeutic abortion on an unviable fetus?

  • By foetus immaturus here he means an unviable foetus, as is evident from the context.

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