Crossword clues for drinkable
drinkable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drinkable \Drink"a*ble\, a.
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable.
--Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
--Steele.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of water English) safe to drink. 2 (context of an alcoholic beverage, especially wine English) Of good or satisfactory quality. n. (context usually in plural English) That which can be drunk.
WordNet
adj. fit to drink [ant: undrinkable]
n. any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: beverage, drink, potable]
Usage examples of "drinkable".
How were they going to find food and forage, and, more important, enough drinkable water for themselves, a wolf, and two horses while crossing a frozen expanse of glacial ice?
To say that there was nothing eatable or drinkable in that hotel, would be to tell that which will be understood without telling.
A little rill, which wound under the plants, furnished drinkable water, which they did not drink without improving it with a few drops of rum.
Howell had thoughtfully but mistakenly laid in for me was drinkable in spite of the gas.
Rain and hail could dilute the surface layers almost to fresh water density, at least by percentage salinity and osmotic factors, but more than an hour or so after an ordinary storm even surface water was likely to have too high a concentration of nasty ions like nickel or cadmium to be safely drinkable.
But with Aloysia here, her maid and my own man, my stock of food and drinkables is rapidly disappearing.
There were long counters loaded with eatables and drinkables at which those who were hungry or thirsty ate or drank as much as they liked.
Book and news dealers, sellers of edibles, drinkables, and cigars, who seemed to have plenty of customers, were continually circulating in the aisles.
Bragadin had sent me, also a large bottle of water, which seemed drinkable, and a nice roasted fowl.
In a nearby dried-up watercourse there were barrel cacti, whose juice was drinkable.
In the way of eatables and drinkables, we had stored in the stern of the Dolphin a generous bag of hard-tack (for the chowder), a piece of pork to fry the cunners in, three gigantic apple pies (bought at Pettingil's), half a dozen lemons, and a keg of spring water--the last-named articles were slung over the side, to keep it cool, as soon as we got under way.
Captain Nemo took me to the galleys, where the vast distillatory machines stood that furnished the drinkable water by evaporation.
The purifier was a little flash-evaporation unit, one that would produce clean, drinkable water from the most bitter alkalines of any lake.
A liqueur made only for drinking at the end of a revoltingly long bottle party when all the drinkable drink has been drunk.
There apparently isn't a decent bridge player or a drinkable bottle of bourbon in the area.