Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obtainable \Ob*tain"a*ble\, a. Capable of being obtained.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from obtain + -able. Related: Obtainability.
Wiktionary
a. capable of being obtained or procured.
WordNet
adj. capable of being obtained; "savings of up to 50 percent are obtainable" [syn: gettable, getable, procurable]
Usage examples of "obtainable".
If, indeed, the value of logical systems were to be judged of by the results obtainable, formal deductive Logic would probably be superseded.
As murder weapons go, the lowly tire iron has the virtue of being genderless and easily obtainable.
Though they strained their eyes and spoke with bated breath, never a sight of boat or canoes was obtainable for hours after the latter were swallowed up by the trees which shrouded the creek at the foot of Guanaco Hill.
They are illustrated in colour by Norman Lindsay, Hal Gye and Lionel Lindsay, and are obtainable from all Booksellers, Bookstalls and Newsagents in Australia and New Zealand.
The worthy man spent two hours with me, without saying a word on the subject of literature, but to please me he had no need to talk of books, for he was a disciple of Epicurus and Socrates, and the evening was spent in telling little stories, in bursts of laughter, and in accounts of the various kinds of pleasure obtainable at Geneva.
These little billets-doux were written in a solution of pyramidon, a powder often used as a headache cure and readily obtainable at most pharmacies.
As practiced it was pretty much under the control of the different religious denominations and the information obtainable about inks from these sources is but fragmentary.
Indian chutney, cottage cheese, gooseberry jam, gingerbread, a cheese slipover consisting of a deep-dish apple pie with a Welsh rabbit melted over it, lobster stuffed and baked, broccoli Parmesan, crisp endive with Roquefort dressing, baked Alaska, coffee with grated orange peel and a clove, a Bacardi swizzle and a bottle of Fiora del Alpina, with a cashew nut to nibble and any other expensive or out of season comestibles obtainable or not.
When I was at Valentia, a good bottle of wine was scarcely obtainable, though Malaga and Alicante were both close at hand.
So the Pentagon scoured the long-forgotten series of deferments and scores of young unattached, childless lawyers obtainable meat were sent unrefusable invitations in which was explained the meaning of the word "deferment" as opposed to the word "annulment.
Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice.
Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice.
It's a nerve poison that is extracted from plants that are only obtainable from planets belonging to a Delta-Cepheid variable type sun.
Unfortunately for everybody who lived, loved, ate, slept, and shit in Sunrise Valley, Daisy Cutters could also be assembled at home out of readily obtainable ingredients.
Such bowls, frequently used in magick, are often obtainable cheaply from car boot or garage sales.