## Meanings
1. Easy to reach, enter, or get to.
2. Easy to obtain or get hold of.
3. Easy to understand or enjoy.
4. Designed so that people with disabilities can use it.

## Examples
- The village is easily accessible by train.
- Most students now have a computer easily accessible at home.
- She has a gift for making difficult science accessible to ordinary readers.
- They rebuilt the entrance to make the museum accessible to wheelchair users.

## Antonyms
- inaccessible

## Derived Forms
- accessibility
- accessibleness
- accessibly
- bioaccessible
- handicapped-accessible
- immunoaccessible
- nonaccessible
- unaccessible

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: accessibilis

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

## AI Etymology
Accessible is first attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access plus -ible. The suffix -able or -ible gives the formation a passive or potential value, marking something capable of being, suitable for being, or worthy of the action named by equivalent to access. In use as an adjective, accessible denotes easy to reach, enter, or get to, easy to obtain or get hold of, and easy to understand or enjoy. The same word family continues in derived forms such as accessibility, accessibleness, accessibly, and bioaccessible.

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