navigable

CEFRB2

/ˈnævɪɡəbəl/

adjective

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Examples

The river was formerly navigable throughout its course by small craft.
This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Steerable, dirigible.
Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
Easy to navigate.

In context

Algeria's rivers aren't navigable.
[...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."

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[...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."
1939 July 26, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3
Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.
1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator, number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2

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From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.