usable

English

Alternative forms

• useable

Etymology

From Old French usable, from the verb user (“to use”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.zə.bəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

usable (comparative more usable, superlative most usable)

1. Capable of being used.
   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:

     The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.

   Antonym: unusable

2. Easy to use; exhibiting good usability.

   Synonym: user-friendliness

3. homosexual
   • 2019 episode 1 A Very English Scandal

     Are you telling me that you were useable?

Derived terms

• maximum usable frequency
• usability
• unusable

Translations

capable of being used

• Afrikaans: bruikbaar
• Armenian: գործածելի (hy) (gorcaceli)
• Belarusian: прыда́тны да ўжыва́ння (prydátny da ŭžyvánnja), прыда́тны (prydátny)
• Bulgarian: използваем (bg) (izpolzvaem)
• Catalan: usable, utilitzable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可用 (zh) (kěyòng)

• Czech: použitelný (cs) m
• Danish: brugbar (da), anvendelig
• Dutch: bruikbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: uzebla
• Estonian: kasutatav
• Finnish: käyttökelpoinen (fi)
• French: utilisable (fr)
• German: nutzbar (de), benutzbar (de)
• Hungarian: használható (hu)
• Manx: yn-ymmydey
• Occitan: utilizable
• Portuguese: utilizável (pt), usável (pt)
• Romanian: folosibil, utilizabil (ro), întrebuințabil
• Russian: го́дный к употребле́нию (gódnyj k upotrebléniju), го́дный (ru) (gódnyj)
• Spanish: utilizable (es), usable
• Swedish: användbar (sv), bruklig (sv)
• Turkish: kullanılır (tr), elverişli (tr), yaraklı (tr)
• Ukrainian: прида́тний для вжива́ння (prydátnyj dlja vžyvánnja), прида́тний (prydátnyj)
• Vietnamese: dùng được, khả dụng (vi)

See also

• utilizable

Anagrams

• Aubles, Bleaus, suable

Catalan

Etymology

From usar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [uˈzab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [uˈza.ble]

Adjective

usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)

1. usable

   Synonym: utilitzable

   Antonym: inusable

Derived terms

• inusable

Further reading

• “usable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “usable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “usable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “usable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From usar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈsable/ [uˈsa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: u‧sa‧ble

Adjective

usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)

1. usable

   Synonym: utilizable