accessible
easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
able to be used, entered, reached, etc.: an accessible road; accessible Mayan ruins.
suitable for disabled people to reach, enter, or use, as a result of design modifications: wheelchair-accessible vans;modified controllers to make video games accessible.
readily understandable: Students may believe that poetry is not accessible because of its metaphorical language.
obtainable; attainable: accessible evidence.
open to the influence of (usually followed by to): accessible to bribery.
Origin of accessible
1Other words from accessible
- ac·ces·si·bil·i·ty [ak-ses-uh-bil-uh-tee] /ækˌsɛs əˈbɪl ə ti/ noun
- ac·ces·si·bly, adverb
- non·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective
- pre·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective
- un·ac·ces·si·ble, adjective
- un·ac·ces·si·bly, adverb
Words that may be confused with accessible
- accessible , assessable
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How to use accessible in a sentence
Social media has made product research more accessible to users.
How social media influence 71% consumer buying decisions | Aleh Barysevich | November 20, 2020 | Search Engine WatchNow, because technologies are more accessible, newcomers can also disrupt, and this is where we want to focus with the lab.
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society | Jason Sparapani | November 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe App Store has been an engine of economic growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea.
Apple to cut app store fees in half for most developers | Verne Kopytoff | November 18, 2020 | FortuneThe public interest policy exists to make sure that the source content is accessible.
EmTech Stage: Twitter’s CTO on misinformation | Tate Ryan-Mosley | November 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink and David and Goliath, and the popular podcast host of Revisionist History, Gladwell is known for making social science research accessible.
Each is accessibly written and by a person who knows China well.
The magnetos are very accessibly located on a bracket on the spur gear cover.
Aviation Engines | Victor Wilfred PagNowhere so accessibly, so fully, and so truthfully will be found the state of Henry the Eighth's England set forth.
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 | Sebastian Brandt
British Dictionary definitions for accessible
/ (əkˈsɛsəbəl) /
easy to approach, enter, use, or understand
accessible to likely to be affected by; open to; susceptible to
obtainable; available
easy for disabled people to enter or use
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
Derived forms of accessible
- accessibility, noun
- accessibly, adverb
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