searchable

English

Etymology

From search +‎ -able.

Adjective

searchable (comparative more searchable, superlative most searchable)

1. 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.

2. Capable of being searched for.
   • 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:

     Other searchable items were common or at least not infrequent.

Translations

capable of being searched

• Danish: søgbar
• Dutch: doorzoekbaar (nl)
• Georgian: ძიებადი (ʒiebadi), მოძიებადი (moʒiebadi)
• German: durchsuchbar, suchbar
• Hungarian: kereshető (hu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lêgerbar (ku)

• Portuguese: pesquisável
• Turkish: aranabilir

Noun

searchable (plural searchables)

1. Something that can be searched, or searched for.
   • 2015, Reuven Tsur, On the Shore of Nothingness:

     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”.

Anagrams

• reachables