navigable
adjective
nav·i·ga·ble
ˈna-vi-gə-bəl 
1
a
: deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships
navigable waterways
b
: capable of being navigated
navigable terrain
2
: capable of being steered
Examples of navigable in a Sentence
The marsh was navigable only by canoe.
this map shows which rivers are navigable and which aren't
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Murat Ates, New York Times, 2 July 2025
Ticket Information Thames Tunnel/Brunel Museum The Thames Tunnel was the world’s first passage built through soft ground beneath a navigable river.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
The author mentions a unit of the First U.S. Dragoons ordered to travel to Des Moines to study whether the river was navigable.
—Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 18 May 2025
The energy tightrope that helped China through the supply shocks of the beginning of the war in Ukraine and subsequent global inflation appears to no longer be navigable.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for navigable
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“Navigable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/navigable. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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navigable
adjective
nav·i·ga·ble
ˈnav-i-gə-bəl
1
a
: deep and wide enough to permit passage to ships
navigable rivers
b
: capable of being navigated
navigable terrain
2
: capable of being steered
a navigable balloon
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