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
Words Nearby accessible
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How to use accessible in a sentence
My mission is to normalize the use of cannabis and to make the plant more accessible to people of color.
Tower 28 Announces Winner Of The Clean Beauty Summer School Program | Hope Wright | September 17, 2020 | Essence.comSometimes the best thing you can do as a platform is to understand that profit and efficiency is at risk, but seek the solution that allows for the most data-points to be accessible so all paying customers can utilize your advertising solution.
This decade’s most important marketing question: What data rights do advertisers possess? | Kirk Williams | September 17, 2020 | Search Engine LandThe sites are being offered as traditional polling sites, such as senior centers, schools or other public buildings, become less accessible amid concerns about the novel coronavirus, and are being offered free of charge, according to the company.
Trump contradicts CDC director on vaccine; Biden says Americans shouldn’t trust Trump | Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostSome accessible areas were plastered with “No Trespassing” signs.
How to hunt for star-nosed moles (and their holes) | Kenneth Catania | September 15, 2020 | Popular-ScienceCoker said Lorson has made an effort to be responsive by putting the process on pause and is being professional and accessible in general, but still hasn’t addressed all of their concerns.
Oceanside Is Rethinking Its Police Chief Hiring Process Following Community Concerns | Kayla Jimenez | September 14, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Recently, historians have been working hard to write books that are more accessible.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society | Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTConsumers are also gaining the ability to take the designs into their own hands as 3D printing becomes more accessible.
Which is bad, because we all have an investment in making college affordable and accessible to everyone.
The Student Loan Crisis That Isn’t About Kids at Harvard | Monica Potts | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the site is incompatible with special screen reading software that would make it accessible to blind readers.
TEDx Talks Have a Disability Problem—but This Incredible Young Woman Is Working to Change That | Nina Strochlic | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe wrote to the managers and requested it be made accessible to her, but her request was dismissed.
TEDx Talks Have a Disability Problem—but This Incredible Young Woman Is Working to Change That | Nina Strochlic | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEasily accessible to all, courteous and reasonable ever, he was in many respects a model railway manager.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowAu Sud de Gaba Tépé s'étend une plaine que les cartes disent accessible au débarquement.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe swamp is more easily accessible from Virginia than from North Carolina.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThe whole story is also told by Dryden, whose version is easily accessible.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerThere are some forty-two of these cemeteries in all now known, many of which are only partially accessible.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry Withrow
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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