usable

English

Alternative forms

• useable

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.zə.bəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Adjective

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?

Derived terms

• maximum usable frequency
• usability
• unusable

Translations

capable of being used

Afrikaans: bruikbaar Armenian: գործածելի (hy) (gorcaceli) Belarusian: прыда́тны да ўжыва́ння (prydátny da ŭžyvánnja), прыда́тны (prydátny) Bulgarian: използваем (bg) (izpolzvaem) Catalan: usable, utilitzable Chinese: Mandarin: 可用 (zh) (kěyòng) Czech: použitelný (cs) m Danish: brugbar (da), anvendelig Dutch: bruikbaar (nl) Esperanto: uzebla Estonian: kasutatav Finnish: käyttökelpoinen (fi) French: utilisable (fr) German: nutzbar (de), benutzbar (de) Hungarian: használható (hu) Manx: yn-ymmydey Occitan: utilizable Portuguese: utilizável (pt), usável (pt) Romanian: folosibil, utilizabil (ro), întrebuințabil Russian: го́дный к употребле́нию (gódnyj k upotrebléniju), го́дный (ru) (gódnyj) Spanish: utilizable (es), usable Swedish: användbar (sv), bruklig (sv) Turkish: kullanılır (tr), elverişli (tr), yaraklı (tr) Ukrainian: прида́тний для вжива́ння (prydátnyj dlja vžyvánnja), прида́тний (prydátnyj) Vietnamese: dùng được, khả dụng (vi)

See also

• utilizable

Anagrams

• Aubles, Bleaus, suable

Catalan

Etymology

From usar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [uˈzab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [uˈza.ble]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)

1. usable

   Synonym: utilitzable

   Antonym: inusable

Derived terms

• inusable

Further reading

• “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], April 2007
• “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.

Spanish

Etymology

From usar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈsable/ [uˈsa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: u‧sa‧ble

Adjective

usable m or f (masculine and feminine plural usables)

1. usable

   Synonym: utilizable