navigable

English

Etymology

From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis

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.

Antonyms

• unnavigable

Derived terms

• keyboard-navigable
• navigability

Related terms

• navigatable
• navigate
• navigation
• navigator

 

Translations

for a body of water: sea, river etc.

• 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) m (avir leshayit)
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• Macedonian: пловен m (ploven), пловна f (plovna), пловно n (plovno)
• Manx: yn-shiaulley
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: farbar, seilbar

  Nynorsk: farbar

• Portuguese: navegável (pt)
• Spanish: navegable

for a boat

• Catalan: navegable
• Finnish: merikelpoinen
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• Macedonian: пловен m (ploven)
• Manx: yn-stiurey

for a balloon

• Macedonian: пловен m (ploven)
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• Ido: navigebla (io)
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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.

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French

Etymology

From naviguer +‎ -able

Pronunciation

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Adjective

navigable (plural navigables)

1. navigable

Further reading

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