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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
readable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
eminently
▪ Sir Ian provides an eminently readable and always scholarly account of these very diverse matters.
▪ Rather, it serves as an eminently readable reference book for those considering a life in food biz.
▪ This, combined with the richness of the data, makes the material eminently readable even for the non-researcher.
highly
▪ In common with Boyd's previous works the text is authoritative while at the same time highly readable.
▪ Fascinating and highly readable, this book will satisfy scholars as well as more casual readers.
▪ The Intimate Machine raises many issues concerning the social impact of computers in an invigorating and highly readable manner.
▪ This highly readable account deserves a wide audience and should provoke serious debate.
▪ A well researched, highly readable account of the debt crisis.
▪ Impassioned, angry, funny, highly readable.
▪ The result is absorbing and highly readable.
▪ As anyone who had heard Professor Jennings lecture will expect, the style is highly readable as well as informative.
more
▪ Macros are a well supported feature of A86 and certainly help you make your code more readable for others.
▪ Graphics are generally more readable when explanatory variables are shown along a horizontal axis and outcome variables vertically.
▪ The editor has performed an excellent task in ensuring that the chapters follow a coherent pattern which makes it more readable.
▪ What makes this book even more readable though are the superb colour photographs and three-dimensional drawings.
▪ Closer examination will show that the document is more readable and links to other subjects are helpful.
very
▪ Often the interviews are very readable material indeed.
▪ Anthony Storr is also very readable.
▪ He has produced a very readable text, with many case studies, which I enjoyed dipping into.
▪ Joking apart, there are a few errors, mainly of pronunciation and transcription, that mar Chiaro's otherwise very readable book.
▪ This is a very readable book, which will catch and keep the attention.
▪ Overall the book is well presented, clear, concise, and very readable.
▪ What it does do very obviously is to construct a narrative, and a very readable one.
▪ However, these are insufficient to detract from a very readable and extensive account of modern mass spectrometry.
■ NOUN
book
▪ It is an immensely readable book, yet it treats its important subject with insight and responsibility.
▪ It is one of his best and most readable books.
▪ Joking apart, there are a few errors, mainly of pronunciation and transcription, that mar Chiaro's otherwise very readable book.
▪ This is a very readable book, which will catch and keep the attention.
form
▪ The review deals with undergraduate courses and manages to condense a great deal of material into a concise and readable form.
▪ The thesaurus may be kept in machine readable form and sections printed only as required.
▪ The required list of words, or lexicon, can be acquired from a standard dictionary in machine readable form.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Her articles are always readable and informative.
▪ This is a well-written and readable introduction to the subject of linguistics.
▪ Toobin's book is a dense yet readable account of the O.J. Simpson trial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Closer examination will show that the document is more readable and links to other subjects are helpful.
▪ Fascinating and highly readable, this book will satisfy scholars as well as more casual readers.
▪ It is readable, reasonably comprehensive and its recommendations, when I have been able to check them out, seem sane.
▪ It is one of his best and most readable books.
▪ It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose, hugely readable.
▪ Rather, it serves as an eminently readable reference book for those considering a life in food biz.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Readable

Readable \Read"a*ble\ (r[=e]d"[.a]*b'l), a. Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting. -- Read"a*ble*ness, n. -- Read"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
readable

1560s, from read (v.) + -able. Related: Readably.

Wiktionary
readable

a. 1 (context of handwriting print etc English) legible, possible to read or at least decipher 2 which can be read, i.e. accessed or played, by a certain technical type of device 3 (context of a book English) enjoyable to read, of an acceptable stylistic quality or at least functionally composed

WordNet
readable

adj. easily deciphered [syn: clear, decipherable]

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Wikipedia
Readable

Readable may refer to:

  • Readability
  • Human-readable
  • Reading (computer)

Usage examples of "readable".

Hir eyebrows puckered questioningly, but Slon was as readable as a rock.

The King was smirking, so probably the Chancellor was being fairly readable himself.

He feels that you should adhere as closely as possible to the English text without making your translation so literal as to be un-German and unidiomatic, and therefore not very readable to German-speaking people.

The One-volume edition will be printed from a new fount of Brevier Ancient type, on toned paper, and will be the most compact and readable edition of Shakespeare ever issued in a single volume.

They turned back to the others, their faces too vague to be readable, the colors miscible, like TV screens out of tune.

I spent January reading and rereading it, partly out of envy, because there it was, in cold print between hard covers, the same place, the same people, some of the same doctors, including a thinly disguised Bolshakov, in a nonfictional memoir that was distinctly Chekhovian, and, despite being deliberately oversimplified or nonarch in style, was greatly readable.

Weston and then at the Academy in Enfield, grown up dividing the human world into those who were open, readable, trustworthy, v.

He looked over, then faced her fully, eyes as readable as everwhich was to say, not at alllean face pleasant and attentive, mouth soft in a half-smile, aims leaning on the rests, hands nice and relaxed.

He opened it, and I saw a bundle of papers, yellow but still readable.

Without his knowing it, the style of his reports was sufficiently Voltairean to be readable.

Then, like magic, high-level encrypted Russian communications, pulled from the ether, began spewing forth in readable plaintext.

As a writer he was wholly untrained, but with all his introversions and obscurities he is the most readable chronicler of his time, the most amusing and as untrustworthy as any.

EA7JQ, by contrast, was a weak three by two, although a slight swing of the beam antenna built Isidore's signal up to three by five, a faint but readable signal.

You should, therefore, keep two carbon copies, one of them as readable and unmarked as the original bond paper script.

A very readable and logical treatise on critical thinking and the differences be­.