usable
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French usable, from the verb user (“to use”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuː.zə.bəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
usable (comparative more usable, superlative most usable)
- Capable of being used.
- 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
- 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 and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
- Antonym: unusable
- Easy to use; exhibiting good usability.
- Synonym: user-friendliness
- homosexual
- 2019 episode 1 A Very English Scandal
- Are you telling me that you were useable?
- 2019 episode 1 A Very English Scandal
Derived terms
Translations
capable of being used
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See also
Catalan
Adjective
usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)
- usable
- Synonym: utilitzable
- Antonym: inusable
Derived terms
Further reading
- “usable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “usable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “usable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “usable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈsable/ [uˈsa.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: u‧sa‧ble
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