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
• navigable waters
• 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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: navigebla (io)

Further reading

• “navigable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “navigable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “navigable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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.