navigable
/ˈnævɪɡəbəl/
navigable adjective: capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
Adjective
navigable (comparative more navigable, superlative most navigable)
- Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
- Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung...1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator, number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2
- [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3
- Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
- Steerable, dirigible.
- Easy to navigate.
- This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.
navigable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
navigable in Tamil
- கப்பல் செல்லத்தக்க, கலம் செலுத்தத்தக்க
navigable in Urdu
- قابل جہاز رانی
navigable in Bengali
- নৌগম্য, নৌবাহনযোগ্য, নৌবাহী, চলাচলের উপযোগী, নাব্য
navigable in Malayalam
- ജലഗതാഗതയോഗ്യമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- navigable in Kannada
- ಹಡಗು ಹೋಗಬಲ್ಲ
Examples of navigable in a sentence
- The silty river needed its channel dredged periodically to remain navigable.
- Here, for the first time, it becomes navigable for junks and steamboats.
- The Frio is not a navigable river, so there's always a question of river depth for canoes and kayaks.
Synonyms of navigable
Antonyms
Forms of navigable
| comparative | more navigable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most navigable |
Origin of navigable
From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.
Words formed from navigable
- circumnavigable
- keyboard-navigable
- navigability
- navigableness
- navigable waters
- navigably
- nonnavigable
Questions about navigable
- What does navigable mean?
- Navigable means capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
- What is navigable in Tamil?
- Navigable in Tamil is கப்பல் செல்லத்தக்க, கலம் செலுத்தத்தக்க. See Navigable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is navigable?
- Navigable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce navigable?
- Navigable is pronounced /ˈnævɪɡəbəl/.
Words near navigable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: navigable (page history and authors); navigable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); navigable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); navigable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); navigable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); navigable (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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