accostable
English
editEtymology
editOriginally from French accostable, in later usage partly recoined from accost + -able.
Adjective
editaccostable (comparative more accostable, superlative most accostable)
- (dated, uncommon) Approachable; affable; willing to be accosted.
- 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home:
- Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter.
- 2019, Patrick Kasper et al., “Modeling User Dynamics in Collaboration Websites”, in Dynamics on and of Complex Networks III: Machine Learning and Statistical Physics Approaches, →ISBN, page 117:
- Online communities becoming increasingly accostable to their users does not always lead to higher overall activity.
- 2019 September 3, Jocelyn Silver, “Renée Zellweger Says Those Mean Tweets About Her Face Made Her Stronger Than Ever”, in W:
- “I always felt that I knew what to do in those circumstances,” she continued. “I didn’t feel … accostable. I never felt that I was being insulted, demeaned. I didn’t recognize it as that. […]”
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “accostable, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editaccostable (plural accostables)
- approachable (of a person)
- (nautical) dockable (at which you can land a boat)
Further reading
edit- “accostable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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