accessible
Americanadjective
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easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
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able to be used, entered, reached, etc..
an accessible road; accessible Mayan ruins.
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suitable for disabled people to reach, enter, or use, as a result of design modifications: modified controllers to make video games accessible.
wheelchair-accessible vans;
modified controllers to make video games accessible.
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readily understandable.
Students may believe that poetry is not accessible because of its metaphorical language.
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obtainable; attainable.
accessible evidence.
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open to the influence of (usually followed byto ).
accessible to bribery.
adjective
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easy to approach, enter, use, or understand
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likely to be affected by; open to; susceptible to
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obtainable; available
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easy for disabled people to enter or use
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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
Other Word Forms
- accessibility noun
- accessibly adverb
- nonaccessible adjective
- preaccessible adjective
- unaccessible adjective
- unaccessibly adverb
Etymology
Origin of accessible
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, Middle French, from Late Latin accessibilis; access, -ible
Example Sentences
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Amanda Cresswell, 54, is part of Staying Alive and Well, a group of people with learning disabilities who helped to create an accessible version of the report.
From BBC
There are some local communication platforms accessible inside the country, although observers have raised security and privacy concerns about their use.
From BBC
“It’s so human and it was accessible for me,” he recalls thinking.
From Los Angeles Times
Some courses are free - but others are paywalled - and lessons, which are accessible to any adult in the UK, vary in length with some lasting 20 minutes and others several hours.
From BBC
To avoid a legal obligation to make sidewalks accessible, the city stopped repaving streets in July and doesn’t plan to resume.
From Los Angeles Times
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