navigable

navigable

English

Etymology

From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnævɪɡəbəl/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

Adjective

navigable (comparative more navigable, superlative most navigable)

1. (of a body of water) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
2. (of a boat) Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
3. (of a balloon) Steerable, dirigible.
4. Easy to navigate.

   This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.

Synonyms

• navigatable (possibly nonstandard)

Antonyms

• unnavigable

Derived terms

• keyboard-navigable
• navigability

Related terms

• navigatable
• navigate
• navigation
• navigator

 

Translations

for a body of water: sea, river etc.

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: судаходны (sudaxódny) Bulgarian: плавателен (plavatelen) Catalan: navegable Czech: splavný (cs) Dutch: bevaarbaar (nl) Esperanto: navigebla Finnish: purjehduskelpoinen French: navigable (fr) German: schiffbar (de) Greek: Ancient: ναυσίπορος (nausíporos) Hebrew: עָבִיר לְשַׁיִט‎ (he) (avir leshayit) Macedonian: пловен (ploven) Manx: yn-shiaulley Norwegian: Bokmål: farbar, seilbar Nynorsk: farbar Polish: żeglowny (pl) Portuguese: navegável (pt) Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: судохо́дный (ru) (sudoxódnyj) Spanish: navegable Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

for a boat

Bulgarian: годен за плаване (goden za plavane) Catalan: navegable Finnish: merikelpoinen Macedonian: пловен (ploven) Manx: yn-stiurey

for a balloon

Bulgarian: управляем (upravljaem) Macedonian: пловен (ploven)

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Translations to be checked

Ido: navigebla (io)

Further reading

• navigable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• navigable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• navigable at OneLook Dictionary Search

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French

Etymology

From naviguer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.vi.ɡabl/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

navigable (plural navigables)

1. navigable

Further reading

• “navigable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.