drivable
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˈdraɪvəbl/
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transitable
- If your car is not drivable, they will call for a tow.
- drivable cars
- drivable roads
- drivable prototype
It's always been a nice drivable, usable car.
- It's always been a nice drivable, usable car.
- This truck is certainly drivable every day.
- None of my children have ever driven one of my cars because I don't have drivable cars.
- If your car is not drivable, they will call for a tow.
- Cars, man, cars, everything's drivable infrastructure here.
Examples
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This is a lot of damage. At least it's drivable.
Fiction book (1997) -
But the car was still drivable.
Blog text (26) -
What do you want to do now? - Is that car of yours drivable? - Yeah, more or less.
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I am thinking I could make it drivable, we could drive into town and tell them what happened.
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That way, we can get up in the morning, and we can see if the car's even drivable.
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The car was drivable, and I drove it down the next offramp, back onto the freeway the other way and home.
Blog text (27) -
If your car is still drivable following an auto accident, then you will be entitled to a rental car while the vehicle is being repaired at the auto body shop.
Blog text (26) -
"The R600 represents an increase in aggressiveness, although the linear power delivery of the supercharged engine makes it superbly drivable, much like the R300."
Blog text (24) -
The big change since then is that the SUVs and light trucks have become much more drivable thanks to automatic transmissions, soft suspensions, and car-like interiors, and the advertising has focused more on soccer moms than it used to.
Blog text (18) -
We checked the weather report, and the roads are drivable.
Synonyms
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A road or route you can travel because it is not blocked
Able to be driven on public roads like a car
A place like a road or path that vehicles can move along
Antonyms
How Drivable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Drivable comes from drive + -able, where drive means 'to control a vehicle' and -able means 'can be'. So a road or car that is drivable is 'able to be driven' or suitable for driving.