accessible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being reached

   a town accessible by rail

2. 2
   adj

   easily obtained

   most students now have computers accessible

3. 3
   adj

   capable of being read with comprehension

   readily accessible to the nonprofessional reader

4. 4
   adj

   Easy of access or approach.

   an accessible town or mountain

5. 5
   adj

   Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.

   an accessible website

6. 6
   adj

   Open to the influence of.

   Minds accessible to reason.

7. 7
   adj

   Obtainable; to be got at.

   The materials, however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing.

8. 8
   adj

   Easily understood or appreciated.

   But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.

Etymology

First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.