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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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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