Obtainable

//əbˈteɪnəbl̩// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be obtained.

    "2007, Bill Mason, Connetquot targeted: BLACK POWDER HISTORY, Newsday.com, 14 July, Potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal are combined in proportions and through methods easily obtainable in books and on the Internet."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being obtained wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
availablegettableaccessibleapproachableattainablecome-at-able

Example

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"How is it that otherwise reasonable people come to believe that this same roof, that practically vanishing commodity, is freely obtainable just by packing up and going to another country?"

Etymology

From obtain + -able.

Related phrases

able to

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