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View synonyms for readable

readable

[ ree-duh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. easy or interesting to read.
  2. capable of being read; legible:

    readable handwriting.

  3. pertaining to letter mail with addresses and zip codes capable of being read by optical scanning devices.


readable

/ ˈriːdəbəl /

adjective

  1. (of handwriting, etc) able to be read or deciphered; legible
  2. (of style of writing) interesting, easy, or pleasant to read
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌreadaˈbility, noun
  • ˈreadably, adverb
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Other Words From

  • reada·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of readable1

First recorded in 1560–70; read 1 + -able
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Example Sentences

Those horrified by the use of facial recognition AI being used in public spaces are unlikely to find comfort in the idea of a machine-readable world subject to infinite monitoring.

The result was a text which looked readable but had no meaning at all.

Nozzle dumps their data to BigQuery which makes it easy to process into a format readable by Google Data Studio.

Information is encoded by replacing readable characters with other data, using a unique key.

From Fortune

Make sure that anything you publish is trustworthy, scannable, readable, and well-researched.

Although not his most ambitious work, this novel is a wonderful example of Johnson operating in his most readable mode.

Nonetheless there are some readable and useful tomes that fans of men running around in shorts on a big field will find valuable.

And that, in the end, is why this great raucous, raunchy, wonderfully readable novel is, really, quite unforgettable.

Having these stories gathered into one eminently readable anthology makes Radiant Truths an important book.

Translations into clear and readable English actually fail to convey the stylistic obscurity and difficulty of his Greek.

I found the formidable looking volume more readable than I had imagined and less difficult to understand than I had expected.

The book is nothing more or less than the Systme de la Nature, in a greatly reduced and more readable form.

From the author of "Creole and Puritan" and other stories; and is very bright and readable.

Lumsdens desire was to produce a readable version of the poem.

His poem is readable, but readable at the expense of accuracy.

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