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COME-AT-ABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come-at-able mean? 

COME-AT-ABLE (adjective)
  The adjective COME-AT-ABLE has 2 senses:

1. capable of being attained or accomplishedplay

2. capable of being reached or attainedplay

  Familiarity information: COME-AT-ABLE used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COME-AT-ABLE (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being attained or accomplished

Synonyms:

attainable; come-at-able

Context example:

art is not something that is come-at-able by dint of study

Similar:

possible (capable of happening or existing)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being reached or attained

Synonyms:

come-at-able; get-at-able; getatable

Context example:

both oil and coal are there but not in getatable locations

Similar:

accessible (capable of being reached)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


 Context examples 


After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mrs. and Miss Bates, and Mrs. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation from Hartfield, and who were fetched and carried home so often, that Mr. Woodhouse thought it no hardship for either James or the horses.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)



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