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accessible

/əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/

accessible adjective: easy of access or approach.

Adjective

accessible (comparative more accessible, superlative most accessible)

  1. Easy of access or approach.
    • an accessible town or mountain
    • At first sight it would seem that the deep interior of the sun and stars is less accessible to scientific investigation than any other region of the universe.1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1
    Synonyms:
    approachable
  2. (specifically) Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.
    • an accessible website
    • accessible public transport
  3. Easy to get along with.
  4. (with-to) Open to the influence of.
    • Minds accessible to reason.1890, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of Herodotus
  5. Obtainable; to be got at.
    • The materials, however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC
  6. Easily understood or appreciated.
    • But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure, →ISBN
  7. Capable of being used or seen.

accessible meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

accessible in Hindi

accessible, reachable
गम्य gamya
accessible, attainable, passable
सुगम sugam

accessible in Tamil

அடையக்கூடிய, நெருங்கக்கூடிய, அணுகக்கூடிய

accessible in Marathi

प्रवेशयोग्य

accessible in Urdu

قابِلِ رَسائی, قابل حصول ہونا, سہل الحصول, دسترس پذیر, اثر پذیر
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accessible in Bengali
সুগম, অভিগম্য, সুলভ, অবারিত
accessible in Malayalam
മനസ്സിലാക്കാവുന്ന, സ്വാധീനിക്കാൻ കഴിയുന്ന, അഭിഗമ്യമായ, സമീപിക്കാവുന്ന
accessible in Kannada
ಪಡೆಯಬಲ್ಲ, ಮುಟ್ಟಬಲ್ಲ, ಎಟಕುವ, ಸೇರಬಹುದಾದ
accessible in Punjabi
ਪਹੁੰਚਯੋਗ
accessible in Gujarati
સુલભ
accessible in Odia
ପ୍ରବେଶଯୋଗ୍ଯ଼
accessible in Sanskrit
सुगम sugama

Examples of accessible in a sentence

  • Speedy, worldwide, accessible delivery of news through the Web has made newspapers obsolete.
  • If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.
  • The novel's less accessible aspects were ignored by the Hollywoodian money machine.

All 40 example sentences with accessible

Synonyms of accessible

Antonyms

Forms of accessible

comparativemore accessible
superlativemost accessible

Origin of accessible

First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.

Words formed from accessible

Questions about accessible

What does accessible mean?
Accessible means easy of access or approach.
What is accessible in Hindi?
Accessible in Hindi is गम्य (gamya), सुगम (sugam). See Accessible meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is accessible?
Accessible is an adjective.
How do you pronounce accessible?
Accessible is pronounced /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/ (UK).

Words near accessible in the dictionary

  1. accessaryship
  2. accessed
  3. accesses
  4. accessibilities
  5. accessibility
  6. accessible
  7. accessible tourism
  8. accessibleness
  9. accessibly
  10. accessing
  11. accession

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: accessible (page history and authors); गम्य (Hindi) (page history and authors); accessible (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accessible (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); accessible (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accessible (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accessible (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accessible (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); accessible (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); accessible (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); accessible (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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