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comeatable

comeatable is the alternative spelling of come-at-able.

Meaning of come-at-able

Adjective

come-at-able (comparative more come-at-able, superlative most come-at-able)

  1. Easily accessible.
    • [B]efore steamboats made Greenwich so come-at-able there were many families of distinction who resided there and in its environs — especially in the autumn of the year, when the river offered much amusement.1840, Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack
  2. Capable of being reached, fetched or attained.
    • After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the...1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 3, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC

Forms of comeatable

comparativemore comeatable
superlativemost comeatable

Words formed from comeatable

Questions about comeatable

What is comeatable the alternative spelling of?
Comeatable is the alternative spelling of come-at-able.

Words near comeatable in the dictionary

  1. comeagre
  2. comealong
  3. comealongs
  4. comeasurability
  5. comeasurable
  6. comeatable
  7. Comeau
  8. Comeaus
  9. Comeaux
  10. comeback
  11. comeback kid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comeatable (page history and authors); come-at-able (page history and authors). 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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