Meanings
comparative more searchable · superlative most searchable
- Capable of being searched, especially something that has an automated search function included.
The new searchable database is much more useful than the old paper records.
- Capable of being searched for.
Other searchable items were common or at least not infrequent.
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118
plural searchables
- Something that can be searched, or searched for.
A quite accurate but clumsy paraphrase of this rhetorical question could be “Your attempt to find out the searchables of the unsearchable God is doomed to failure”.
2015, Reuven Tsur, On the Shore of Nothingness
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
- Ancient Greekκίρκος (kírkos)
- Latincircus
- Late Latincircō
- Anglo-Normansercher
- Middle Englishserchen
- Englishsearch
- Englishsearchable
Translations
Danish søgbar
- søgbarcapable of being searched
Dutch doorzoekbaar
- doorzoekbaarcapable of being searched
French cherchable, recherchable
- cherchablecapable of being searched
- recherchablecapable of being searched
German durchsuchbar, suchbar
- durchsuchbarcapable of being searched
- suchbarcapable of being searched
Hungarian kereshető
- kereshetőcapable of being searched
Portuguese pesquisável
- pesquisávelcapable of being searched
Spanish rebuscable, esculcable
- rebuscablecapable of being searched
- esculcablecapable of being searched
- escurcablecapable of being searched
Turkish aranabilir
- aranabilircapable of being searched
Cite this entry
searchable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/searchable
“searchable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/searchable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “searchable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/searchable.
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