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bridgeable

bridgeable

1 5.8
Something you can cross with a bridge or connect with understanding
  • adjective
  • /ˈbrɪdʒəbl/
translation icon : conectable
  • The engineer confirmed that the distances between the islands are bridgeable with a new suspension bridge.

Examples

  • However, he also notes that "the distance between the feudal past and eighteenth-century institutions is eminently bridgeable." (79).

    Academic text (2007)

  • The conviction that all dichotomies are collapsible and all conceptual disconnections bridgeable, while often unreasonable, will produce

    Blog text (14)

  • Dewey believed in the possibility of a science of values and insisted that the seemingly unbridgeable gap between fact and value is bridgeable after all.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The gap between the two minds is bridgeable only through the exercise of creativity, for there is no tangible, measurable, guaranteeable way of connecting the two.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The phenomenon I have been tracing in Eastman's use of narrative technique can best be explained as an attempt to represent, through language, the legal fiction of a rapidly bridgeable divide between Indian life and civilized life.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Again, her IEP team will need to decide if these gaps are bridgeable for Marisala or if adjustments should be made to the postsecondary goals to more accurately reflect her attainable skills.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The IEP team will need to decide if this gap is bridgeable for Austin or if an adjustment should be made to his postsecondary goal so it reflects the true next step for Austin to attain his goal of becoming a police officer.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Of course, evolution does predict that the gap between ancestral apes and modern humans must be bridgeable, but the transitional forms are extinct species of the fossil record, not modern races.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The differences between the two groups are bridgeable if they are willing to communicate openly.

  • Many issues in the negotiation seemed bridgeable, leading to hopes for a viable agreement.

Synonyms

connectable
vsbridgeable
1 4.2

Able to join with other devices and parts

is about being joined using a span or built connector rather than any join
joinable
vsbridgeable
3.5

Can connect to another part

is focused on being joined by a span rather than by any simple fit
crossable
vsbridgeable
3.5

Can be crossed by walking or driving

is about being linked by a span or built connector, not mere traversal

Antonyms

unbridgeable
1 8.0

A gap too large to be closed or fixed

How Bridgeable

bridgeable
1 5.8
unbridgeable
1 8.0

Surface Forms

bridgeable positive

Morphology

bridgeable = bridge (transparent) = bridge + able

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-able' to the verb 'bridge', yielding the straightforward meaning 'able to be bridged'.

Etymology

The word bridgeable comes from the common word bridge and the ending -able, which means 'able to be'. So something bridgeable is 'able to be' crossed or connected, either by a real bridge over water or by understanding between people.