steerable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English steer

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English steerable

From steer + -able.

Adjective

steerable (comparative more steerable, superlative most steerable)

1. Capable of being steered.
   • 2019, Ezekiel Boone, The Mansion: A Novel‎^[1]:

     They'd brought out more sleds, and there was a nice mix of old-fashioned wooden toboggans and plastic discs, plus steerable sleds and crazy carpets. Beth and Rothko piled onto a crazy carpet and barely made it twenty feet before wiping out.

Synonyms

• navigable

• dirigible

• maneuverable

• guidable

Antonyms

• unsteerable

• indirigible

• directionless

• unnavigable

• innavigable

Derived terms

• steerableness
• steerably

Translations

capable of being steered — see also dirigible

• Dutch: stuurbaar
• Polish: sterowalny
• Romanian: pilotabil m, dirijabil (ro) m, cârmuibil m
• Spanish: virable, timoneable