3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

accessible

adjective

1: capable of being reached; "a town accessible by rail" [ant: {inaccessible}]

2: capable of being read with comprehension; "readily accessible to the nonprofessional reader"; "the tales seem more approachable than his more difficult novels" [syn: {approachable}]

3: easily obtained; "most students now have computers accessible"; "accessible money"

4: easy to get along with or talk to; friendly; "an accessible and genial man"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Accessible \Ac*cess"i*ble\, adjective [L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See {Accede}.]

1. Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

2. Open to the influence of; -- with to. ''Minds accessible to reason.'' --Macaulay.

3. Obtainable; to be got at.

The best information . . . at present accessible. --Macaulay.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

119 Moby Thesaurus words for "accessible": adaptable, affirmed, all-around, amenable, announced, approachable, at hand, attainable, attendant, available, broadcast, brought to notice, candid, circulated, come-at-able, common knowledge, common property, communicative, convenient, conversable, current, declared, demonstrative, diffused, disseminated, distributed, effusive, employable, expansive, extroverted, findable, frank, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued, getatable, gettable, gossipy, handy, immanent, immediate, impressionable, in circulation, in print, in view, indwelling, influenceable, inherent, made public, malleable, movable, newsy, obtainable, of all work, on board, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, open, open to, open-minded, openable, operative, outgoing, outspoken, penetrable, permeable, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, practicable, present, proclaimed, procurable, propagated, public, published, reachable, ready, receptive, reported, responsive, securable, self-revealing, self-revelatory, sociable, spread, stated, suasible, suggestible, susceptible, swayable, talkative, telecast, televised, to be had, to hand, unconstrained, unhampered, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestricted, unreticent, unsecretive, unshrinking, unsilent, unsuppressed, usable, versatile, weak, within call, within reach, within sight

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