Word Meanings - NAVIGABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. Note: By the comon law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine

Additional info about word: NAVIGABLE

Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. Note: By the comon law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine in several of the United tates. In other States, the doctrine of thje civil law prevails, which is, that a navigable river is a river capable of being navigated, in the common sense of the term. Kent. Burrill. -- Nav"i*ga*ble*ness, n. -- Nav"i*ga*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NAVIGABLE)

• Passable
• Traversable
• navigable
• penetrable
• admissible
• tolerable
• ordinary

Related words: (words related to NAVIGABLE)

• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• NAVIGABLE
  Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river. Note: By the comon law, a river is considered as navigable only so far as the tide ebbs and flows in it. This is also the doctrine
• PASSABLE
  1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak. 2. Capable
• PENETRABLE
  Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively. And pierce his only penetrable part. Dryden. I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreats. Shak. -- Pen"e*tra*ble*ness, n. -- Pen"e*tra*bly, adv.
• ADMISSIBLE
  Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.
• TRAVERSABLE
  1. Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region. 2. Deniable; specifically , liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. Sir M. Hale.
• ORDINARYSHIP
  The state of being an ordinary. Fuller.
• TOLERABLE
  1. Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton. 2. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as
• PASSABLENESS
  The quality of being passable.
• UNTOLERABLE
  Intolerable.
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• IMPASSABLE
  Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.
• UNPASSABLE
  Impassable. E. A. Freeman. -- Un*pass"a*ble*ness, n. Evelyn.
• UNPENETRABLE
  Impenetrable.
• COMPASSABLE
  Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.
• INNAVIGABLE
  Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels. Drygen. -- In*nav"i*ga*bly, adv.
• INADMISSIBLE
  Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed, or received; as, inadmissible testimony; an inadmissible proposition, or explanation. -- In`ad*mis"si*bly, adv.
• IMPENETRABLE
  Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or
• CIRCUMNAVIGABLE
  Capable of being sailed round. Ray.
• TRANSPASSABLE
  Capable of being transpassed, or crossed over.
• EXTRAORDINARY
  1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton. 2. Exceeding the common degree, measure.