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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)

  1. 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
  2. Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
  3. Steerable, dirigible.
  4. 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.

All 11 example sentences with navigable

Synonyms of navigable

Antonyms

Forms of navigable

comparativemore navigable
superlativemost navigable

Origin of navigable

From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.

Words formed from navigable

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

  1. navies
  2. naviform
  3. navig
  4. navigabilities
  5. navigability
  6. navigable
  7. navigable waters
  8. navigableness
  9. navigably
  10. navigatability
  11. navigatable

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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