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bookable

bookable

1 3.1
Can be reserved in advance
  • adjective
  • /ˈbʊkəbl/
: reservable
  • People win at slot machines, too, but cannot tell how, because they use no justifiable, inscribable, bookable technique.

Examples

  • The trouble is that their version of the fully rational life, the bookable final rules for language games, requires unusual forecasts.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The notion that bookable knowledge can guide the world through its difficult moments, like the notion that central planning can guide an economy, is self-contradictory.

    Academic text (1992)
  • I have wasted so much money buying "deals for travel" that never seem to be bookable.

    Blog text (29)
  • Based on the "330-day" release schedule, that trip should be bookable around the end of January next year.

    Blog text (4)
  • What we have established in the course of our latest research is that industry-savvy experts are right now developing inspirational, easily bookable online products.

    Blog text (24)
  • Over the last six months, I have seen more and more of this type of 'travel inventory' being sourced with the view to putting it in a marketable, bookable format.

    Blog text (24)
  • Tony's Di Napoli is a very good family-style Italian restaurant and is bookable on OpenTable.

    Blog text (12)
  • As Plato and the skeptic about forecasting would say, the claim of divining to be an art, Greek techne, mere bookable craft, is absurd.

    Academic text (1992)
  • You can find many vacation rentals that are bookable for the summer months.

  • The conference rooms are bookable online, making it easy for attendees to secure their space.

Synonyms

reservable
vsbookable
1 3.7

Can be booked in advance

has identical meaning but differs only by word choice

Antonyms

82 3.4

Not able to be used, reached, or bought

5 2.4

People have reserved all places, rooms, or tickets

How Available

available
∞ 2.3
bookable
1 3.1
booked
93 1.0
unavailable
82 3.4

Surface Forms

bookable positive

Morphology

bookable = book (transparent) = book + able

Formed by the productive suffix '-able' attached to the verb 'book', meaning 'able to be booked'; the derivation is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

The word bookable comes from book, from the idea of writing a name in a 'book' to save a seat or ticket, plus the ending -able meaning 'can be'. So bookable means 'can be reserved'.