Meanings
comparative more walkable · superlative most walkable
- Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.
Cities were generally much more walkable before the mid-20th century.
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This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it.
What I found turned out to be one of the best beer-drinking destinations I’d visited in Europe, a friendly and undertouristed city of about 750,000 inhabitants — large enough to be interesting, though still walkable.
2015 July 23, Evan Rail, “A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales”, in The New York Times - Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.
Is the train station walkable from here?
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Just outside the city centre, briskly walkable and even more briskly busable from the main City site, Charlie Frears has his own medical library and teaching facilities[…]
2005, Johnny Rich, The PUSH Guide to which University, page 172
Origin
Translations
French marchable
- marchableable to be walked
Portuguese andável
- andávelable to be walked
Romanian pietonal, bun de mers pe jos
- pietonalable to be walked
- bun de mers pe josable to be walked
Spanish caminable, transitable
- caminableable to be walked
- transitableable to be walked
Swedish promenadvänlig, på/inom gångavstånd
- promenadvänligable to be walked
- på/inom gångavståndclose enough
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with walkable
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walkable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/walkable
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