explorable

English

Etymology

From explore +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ex‧plo‧ra‧ble

Adjective

explorable (comparative more explorable, superlative most explorable)

1. Capable of being explored.

Translations

capable of being explored

• Czech: prozkoumatelný
• Galician: explorable (gl), explorábel (gl)

Noun

explorable (plural explorables)

1. (rare) That which can be explored; a subject for exploration.
   • 2004, Samuel Oluwole Ogundele, Rethinking West African Archaeology, page 129:

     […] this preconceived notion necessarily makes it impossible for many archaeologists, especially those who trained in the Western intellectual environment to explore the explorables.

   • 1968, Ivor Armstrong Richards, So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English, page 265:

     The way to recover a truly elementary education (one which provides, nourishes and liberates the elements) is through the same experimental curiosities as to how language works which give the child speech. But when he comes to writing let us give him sequenced explorables — to sustain and encourage in him the concept of an intelligible world.

2. Short for explorable explanation.

French

Etymology

From explorer +‎ -able.

Adjective

explorable (plural explorables)

1. explorable

Further reading

• “explorable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.