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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
playable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The string quartet is looking for music that will be playable for all members of the group.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And ... At least one playable demo of one of the hottest new releases!
▪ But they feature two separate mono tracks on one record and are playable by means of a tandem arm kitted out with two cartridges.
▪ It's not just pretty to look at though, it's also incredibly playable.
▪ This will get you into a playable but ultimately limited game.
▪ Very playable but without soundblaster it is a simple target game.
Wiktionary
playable

a. 1 Able to be played. 2 (context games English) Of a move, giving a reasonable result; able to be played without losing. 3 (context games English) Of a game, able to be played and enjoyed.

WordNet
playable

adj. capable of or suitable for being played or played on; "a playable lie in golf"; "the baseball fan reached out and caught a foul that was judged playable"; "the ball field was playable"; "harpsichord music is readily playable"- P.H.Lang [ant: unplayable]

Usage examples of "playable".

It settled gently on the ground, flattening out the rolling hills of the golf course which, snakes or no snakes, would not be playable for a some time.

I managed to come up with some tennis rackets, balls, and net, and we paid the natives to stamp out a playable court.

Most of our forty-two students are at Games, that being the area most satisfyingly playable in the Confederation.

The gambit is playable both ways, but not with the hope of retaining the captured spearman for a material advantage.

Halfway through the first rack she failed to sink the seven on a tough but playable angle across the table.

Can it be that the role of purveyor of its fashionable products is playable also by a chimney sweep, a baker, a fantasizing child?

She was beginning to wonder if there was a playable instrument in the lot when she spotted one depending from a hook almost lost in the shadows of the wall.

Time becomes a joke to those who spend too much time in the timewave, and history had become, to Roger, nothing but a vast video library playable in extreme virtual reality.

None of it was familiar music, but it was music that was playable on the country stations at home.

Experience suggested strongly that in this situation she would be better off being a sexless crew member, just one of the fellows, as long as that role was playable.

So they brought in a guy who had worked for a few video game companies, and later they brought in some other guys to do hardware and communications, and they raised enough seed money to build a playable prototype.