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swimmable

swimmable adjective: able to be swum in or across.

Adjective

swimmable (comparative more swimmable, superlative most swimmable)

  1. Able to be swum in or across
    • Those efforts have helped the Hudson inch closer to the healthy, swimmable river that it was before industry sprouted along its banks.2007 January 30, Anahad O’Connor, “Looking to the Hudson for Rockland’s Water Needs”, in New York Times

Forms of swimmable

comparativemore swimmable
superlativemost swimmable

Origin of swimmable

From swim + -able.

Words formed from swimmable

Questions about swimmable

What does swimmable mean?
Swimmable means able to be swum in or across.
What part of speech is swimmable?
Swimmable is an adjective.

Words near swimmable in the dictionary

  1. swimlaned
  2. swimlanes
  3. swimline
  4. swimlines
  5. swimmability
  6. swimmable
  7. swimmably
  8. swimmand
  9. swimmate
  10. swimmates
  11. swimmed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swimmable (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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