Faceable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Capable of being confronted or dealt with effectively
2. Able to be met or approached without undue difficulty
3. Possible to face or manage in a given situation

Etymology: "Faceable" is a plain combination of "face" and the suffix "-able", which attaches to verbs to mean "able to be" whatever the verb describes. "Face" here carries its sense of confronting or meeting something, so a "faceable" person or problem is one you can confront or approach without undue trouble. The suffix is the same one found in words like "readable" and "washable", and it has been productive in English for centuries, so "faceable" is best understood as an ordinary formation built from familiar parts rather than a word with a distinctive history of its own.

Synonyms: confrontable, tacklable, manageable, addressable, surmountable

Antonyms: unmanageable, insurmountable, unapproachable, untacklable, unaddressable