read|a|ble

read|a|ble
read|a|ble «REE duh buhl», adjective.
1. easy or pleasant to read; interesting: »

Treasure Island is a very readable story.

2. capable of being read; legible.
read´a|ble|ness, noun.
read´a|bly, adverb.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • read´a|ble|ness — read|a|ble «REE duh buhl», adjective. 1. easy or pleasant to read; interesting: »Treasure Island is a very readable story. 2. capable of being read; legible. –read´a|ble|ness, noun. –read´a|bly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

  • un|read|a|ble — «uhn REE duh buhl», adjective. 1. that cannot be read or deciphered; illegible: »an unreadable manuscript. 2. not suitable or fit for reading; not worth reading: »a dull, unreadable book …   Useful english dictionary

  • ma|chine-read|a|ble — «muh SHEEN REE duh buhl», adjective. able to be processed directly by a computer: »With current bibliographic information available in machine readable form…, library users will eventually be able to disregard the traditional card catalog (Harold …   Useful english dictionary

  • read´a|bly — read|a|ble «REE duh buhl», adjective. 1. easy or pleasant to read; interesting: »Treasure Island is a very readable story. 2. capable of being read; legible. –read´a|ble|ness, noun. –read´a|bly, adverb …   Useful english dictionary

  • leg´i|ble|ness — leg|i|ble «LEHJ uh buhl», adjective. 1. that can be read: »Figurative. the trouble legible in my countenance (Charles Lamb). SYNONYM(S): readable. 2. easy to read; plain and clear: »Her handwriting is both beautiful and legible. SYNONYM(S):… …   Useful english dictionary

  • leg|i|ble — «LEHJ uh buhl», adjective. 1. that can be read: »Figurative. the trouble legible in my countenance (Charles Lamb). SYNONYM(S): readable. 2. easy to read; plain and clear: »Her handwriting is both beautiful and legible. SYNONYM(S): distinct …   Useful english dictionary

  • il|leg´i|ble|ness — il|leg|i|ble «ih LEHJ uh buhl», adjective. very hard or impossible to read; not plain enough to read; not legible: »The boy s handwriting was so bad that his letter to his mother was illegible. The ink had faded so that many words were illegible …   Useful english dictionary

  • il|leg|i|ble — «ih LEHJ uh buhl», adjective. very hard or impossible to read; not plain enough to read; not legible: »The boy s handwriting was so bad that his letter to his mother was illegible. The ink had faded so that many words were illegible. SYNONYM(S):… …   Useful english dictionary

  • ca|ble-read|y — «KAY buhl REHD ee», adjective. designed or able to be plugged into a cable television system: »Make sure the VCR is cable ready and can be hooked up directly to the cable (Hans Fantel) …   Useful english dictionary

  • pe|rus´a|ble — pe|ruse «puh ROOZ», transitive verb, rused, rus|ing. 1. to read through carefully: »I will show you what to turn over unread and what to peruse (Sir Richard Steele). She perused “Middlemarch”; she was disappointed (Lytton Strachey). 2. to read,… …   Useful english dictionary

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