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motorable

motorable adjective: which can be traveled on by motor cars.

Adjective

motorable (comparative more motorable, superlative most motorable)

  1. Which can be traveled on by motor cars.
    • During the Cultural Revolution, Taipai County built 44 roads, increasing the length of motorable road by 360 kilometers.1974 June 6 [1974 June 1], “Briefs: Shensi County Road-Building”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 110, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page M 1
    • And when finally I got to the end of the five-hour drive over the highest motorable pass in the world, it was to learn that the gompa in Hunder was closed.2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times

Forms of motorable

comparativemore motorable
superlativemost motorable

Origin of motorable

From motor + -able.

Words formed from motorable

Questions about motorable

What does motorable mean?
Motorable means which can be traveled on by motor cars.
What part of speech is motorable?
Motorable is an adjective.

Words near motorable in the dictionary

  1. motor-homes
  2. motor-mouth
  3. motor-mouths
  4. motor-van
  5. motor-vans
  6. motorable
  7. motorail
  8. motorails
  9. motoraxon
  10. motoraxons
  11. motorbicycle

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