climbable

English

Etymology

climb +‎ -able

Adjective

climbable (comparative more climbable, superlative most climbable)

1. able to be climbed
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days‎^[1]:

     The sound of 'Shoot! Shoot!' got farther away—they were skipping for the nearest climbable trees.

   • 2015, Turtle Bunbury, "Beyond the blarney: the best hidden gems in Ireland" in The Guardian, Travel, 16 March, 2015, [2]

     Dursey Island is a walkers’ paradise, celebrated for its nesting colonies of seabirds, the eminently climbable Cnoc Bólais hill and a signal tower built over 200 years ago to keep watch for Napoleon’s fleet.

Antonyms

• unclimbable

Derived terms

• nonclimbable