walkable
adj/ˈwɔːkəbəl/ · [ˈwɔːkəbɫ̩]
Etymology From walk + -able.
1
Able to be walked; suitable for pedestrians.
- This route is no longer walkable since the bush and the vines grew over it.
- Cities were generally much more walkable before the mid-20th century.
1 more example
- What I found turned out to be one of the best beer-drinking destinations I’d visited in Europe, a friendly and undertouristed city of about 750,000 inhabitants — large enough to be interesting, though still walkable.2015 July 23, Evan Rail, “A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales”, in The New York Times:
2
Short enough or close enough to be accessible by walking.
- Is the train station walkable from here?
- Just outside the city centre, briskly walkable and even more briskly busable from the main City site, Charlie Frears has his own medical library and teaching facilities[…]2005, Johnny Rich, The PUSH Guide to which University, page 172:
- Related terms
- walkability