navigable en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈnævɪɡəbəl/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.
Meanings
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(of a body of water) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.
1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator, number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2:[...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."
1939 July 14, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
- (of a boat) Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
- (of a balloon) Steerable, dirigible.
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Easy to navigate.
This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more navigable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most navigable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
keyboard-navigable · navigably · navigable waters · navigableness · nonnavigable · navigability · circumnavigable
Relateds
navigator · navigate · navigatable · navigation
Synonyms
Translations (33)
ga instiúrtha (for a boat) · pl spławny (for a boat) · pl żeglowny (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · bg годен за плаване (for a boat) · pl sterowalny (for a balloon) · es navegable (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · gv yn-shiaulley (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · fr navigable (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · be судаходны (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · pt navegável (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · ca navegable (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · nb farbar (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · pl żeglowny (for a boat) · eo navigebla (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · mk пловен (for a boat) · bg плавателен (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · fi purjehduskelpoinen (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · de schiffbar (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · ca navegable (for a boat) · cs splavný (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · mk пловен (for a balloon) · nl bevaarbaar (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · nn farbar (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · fi merikelpoinen (for a boat) · gv yn-stiurey (for a boat) · ga inseolta (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · nb seilbar (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · mk пловен (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · grc ναυσίπορος (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · he עָבִיר לְשַׁיִט (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · bg управляем (for a balloon) · ru судохо́дный (for a body of water: sea, river etc.) · pl spławny (for a body of water: sea, river etc.)