Dictionary

accostable en · ADJ

Etymology

Originally from French accostable, in later usage partly recoined from accost + -able.

Meanings

1. (dated, uncommon) Approachable; affable; willing to be accosted.
   • Online communities becoming increasingly accostable to their users does not always lead to higher overall activity. 2019, Patrick Kasper et al., “Modeling User Dynamics in Collaboration Websites”, in Dynamics on and of Complex Networks III: Machine Learning and Statistical Physics Approaches, →ISBN, page 117:
   • “I always felt that I knew what to do in those circumstances,” she continued. “I didn’t feel … accostable. I never felt that I was being insulted, demeaned. I didn’t recognize it as that.[…]” 2019 September 3, Jocelyn Silver, “Renée Zellweger Says Those Mean Tweets About Her Face Made Her Stronger Than Ever”, in W:
   • Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter. 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home:

Forms

Deriveds

unaccostable