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useable

useable is the alternative spelling of usable.

Meaning of usable

Adjective

usable (comparative more usable, superlative most usable)

  1. Capable of being used.
    • The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars...2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53
    Antonyms:
    unusable
  2. Easy to use; exhibiting good usability.
    Synonyms:
    user-friendly
  3. homosexual
    • 2019 episode 1 A Very English Scandal
      Are you telling me that you were useable?

Forms of useable

comparativemore useable
superlativemost useable

Words formed from useable

Questions about useable

What is useable the alternative spelling of?
Useable is the alternative spelling of usable.

Words near useable in the dictionary

  1. use-mention distinctions
  2. use-value
  3. use-values
  4. use-wear analysis
  5. useability
  6. useable
  7. useableness
  8. useably
  9. useage
  10. useages
  11. Usec

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Adapted from Wiktionary: useable (page history and authors); usable (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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