fishable

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/ˈfɪʃəbəl/

adjective

Able to be fished legally

Opposite
nonfishableunfishable
OriginEnglish fish ← Middle English fisch ← Old English fisċ →
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Meanings

adjectivefishable (comparative more fishable, superlative most fishable)

comparative more fishable · superlative most fishable

  1. Able to be fished legally
  2. pond etc.Able to be fished in, able to be used for fishing
  3. Able to be used for fishing.

    Even if it could be salvaged, it would have to almost entirely be remade before it was fishable again.

    1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 77

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
nonfishableunfishable

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péysks
  2. Proto-Germanic*fiskaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*fisk
  4. Old Englishfisċ
  5. Middle Englishfisch
  6. Englishfish
  7. Englishfishable

From fish + -able.

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Chicago

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