usable

• useable

From Old French usable, from the verb user (“to use”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.zə.bəl/

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usable (comparative more usable, superlative most usable)

1. Capable of being used.
   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:

     The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.

   Antonym: unusable

2. Easy to use; exhibiting good usability.

   Synonym: user-friendly

3. homosexual
   • 2019 episode 1 A Very English Scandal

     Are you telling me that you were useable?

• maximum usable frequency
• usability
• unusable

• utilizable

• Aubles, Bleaus, suable

From usar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)

1. usable

   Synonym: utilitzable

   Antonym: inusable

• inusable

• “usable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “usable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “usable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “usable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From usar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /uˈsable/
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: u‧sa‧ble

usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)

1. usable

   Synonym: utilizable