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[ak-ses-uh-buhl] Origin

ac·ces·si·ble

[ak-ses-uh-buhl]
adjective
1.
easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
2.
that can be used, entered, reached, etc.: an accessible road; accessible ruins.
3.
obtainable; attainable: accessible evidence.
4.
open to the influence of (usually followed by to): accessible to bribery.

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

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
EXPAND
un·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective
un·ac·ces·si·b·ly, adverb
COLLAPSE

accessible, assessable.
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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