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accessible

[ak-ses-uh-buhl]

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adjective

easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.

that can be used, entered, reached, etc.: an accessible road; accessible ruins.

obtainable; attainable: accessible evidence.

open to the influence of (usually followed by to): accessible to bribery.

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Origin:
1600–10; < Late Latin accessibilis. See access, -ible

Related forms

ac·ces·si·bil·i·ty, noun

ac·ces·si·bly, adverb

non·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective

pre·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective

un·ac·ces·si·bil·i·ty, noun

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un·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective

un·ac·ces·si·b·ly, adverb

COLLAPSE

Can be confused: accessible, assessable.

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accessible is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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World English Dictionary

accessible (əkˈsɛsəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	easy to approach, enter, use, or understand
2.	accessible to likely to be affected by; open to; susceptible to
3.	obtainable; available
4.	easy for disabled people to enter or use
5.	logic (of a possible world) surveyable from some other world so that the truth value of statements about it can be known. A statement possibly p is true in a world W if and only if p is true in some worlds accessible to W

accessi'bility

—n

ac'cessibly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

accessible

c.1600, "affording access," from Fr. accessible, from L. accessus, from pp. stem of accedere (see access). Meaning "easy to reach" is from 1640s; Of art or writing, "able to be readily understood," 1961 (a term not needed in the years before writing or art often deliberately was made not so).

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