readable
/ˈɹiː.də.bəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Enjoyable to read, of an acceptable stylistic quality or at least functionally composed.
Example Sentences
- "If that sign were still readable we'd know where we are!"
- "No sale, those aren't readable with my DVD-player!"
- "These assembly instructions aren't readable, I still don't have a clue how to start!"
- "I have been twice at the Museum looking out for Friedrich Books,—that I might examine them a little, and see whether they were worth buying. […] I have got a rather curious new German Book upon Naples and Masaniello (chiefly) whh often made me remember you. To one who knows the streets edifices &c the thing may be readabler: I mean to send it you to Scotsbg the day after tomorrow, along with my Mother’s Magazine."
- "Your August Potentiality will not fail to observe that those spiritual adumbrations are not evanescent or fugaceous, a latrocinous cheat, repugnant to common-sense and an insult to the most parvanimous of human intelligences, but tangible entities, altogether stationary, and as visible to every eye as the readablest of printed work."
- "With this brief preamble I can, without being more than usually misunderstood, proceed to my duty of reviewing the readablest and quite the maddest book produced by the war: namely, The Prussian Hath Said in His Heart, by Cecil Chesterton, who says very truly that it is what a man says in his heart that matters, and not what he says in Hyde Park."
Etymology
Etymology tree English read Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English readable From read + -able.
Inflected Forms
more readable (comparative)
readabler (comparative, nonstandard)
most readable (superlative)
readablest (nonstandard, rare)