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navigable
[ nav-i-guh-buhl ]
- deep and wide enough to provide passage to ships:
a navigable channel.
- capable of being steered or guided, as a ship, aircraft, or missile.
- Computers. designed or arranged in a way that facilitates moving from web page to web page or from one section to another on a website.
navigable
/ ˈnævɪɡəbəl /
- wide, deep, or safe enough to be sailed on or through
a navigable channel
- capable of being steered or controlled
a navigable raft
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Derived Forms
- ˈnavigably, adverb
- ˌnavigaˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- nav·i·ga·bil·i·ty [nav-i-g, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], nav·i·ga·ble·ness noun
- nav·i·ga·bly adverb
- non·nav·i·ga·bil·i·ty noun
- non·nav·i·ga·ble adjective
- non·nav·i·ga·ble·ness noun
- non·nav·i·ga·bly adverb
- un·nav·i·ga·bil·i·ty noun
- un·nav·i·ga·ble adjective
- un·nav·i·ga·ble·ness noun
- un·nav·i·ga·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of navigable1
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Example Sentences
At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.
This one literally takes up four corners on Rue Sherbrooke, all navigable via underground routes.
The title to the bed of all lakes, ponds, and navigable rivers to the ordinary high-water mark is vested in the states.
The distance from the navigable waters of the Missouri to the navigable waters of the Columbia is less than three hundred miles.
The river has a deeper channel than the Missouri, and is navigable through the summer months.
It is situated at the mouth of the Yangtse-Kiang, the largest river of Asia, navigable for fifteen hundred miles.
On our right is a mile-long channel leading to South Walsham Broad, part of which is navigable and part private.
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