navigable

From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnævɪɡəbəl/

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navigable (comparative more navigable, superlative most navigable)

1. (of a body of water) Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
   • 1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator‎^[1], number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2:

     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, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.

   • 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

     [...] 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."

2. (of a boat) Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
3. (of a balloon) Steerable, dirigible.
4. Easy to navigate.

   This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.

• navigatable (possibly nonstandard)

• unnavigable

• keyboard-navigable
• navigable waters
• navigability

• “navigable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “navigable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “navigable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From naviguer +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /na.vi.ɡabl/

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navigable (plural navigables)

1. navigable

• “navigable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.