drivable

adjective

driv·​able ˈdrī-və-bəl 

variants or less commonly driveable

1

a

: capable of being driven

The car was damaged but still drivable.

Back in the yard, he led me on a brief tour of the accumulated cars. All of them, according to him, were much closer to being drivable than they appeared.

—Ian Frazier

b

: capable of being driven on or over

a drivable road

… a faint skein of … trails and washed-out dirt roads from the colonial era, only parts of it drivable and then only in the dry season.

—Neil Sheehan

c

: reachable by driving

a drivable destination

Below, find some of the most enticing, drivable options away from the Twin Cities, from genre-specific fests to vastly diverse celebrations.

—Michael Madden

2

golf : able to be reached by a drive from the tee

a drivable green

a drivable par four

drivability

ˌdrī-və-ˈbi-lə-tē 

noun

or less commonly driveability

… preserving the standard engine's fuel economy and drivability.

—Jean Lindamood

Examples of drivable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Those cars remained drivable, but in some cases, features that relied on the 3G network—including SOS emergency assistance and automatic crash notifications—just stopped working. —Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2025

Still, Road & Track said at the time that the 512 BB was a better car, and more drivable, a verdict that has held up in the decades since by anyone who has ever sat in the driver’s seat of a Countach. —Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025

Police said Milne’s vehicle had bottomed out on the terrain and was not drivable. —Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

The officer is already in the only drivable lane, when Wilks aggressively enters the lane without a blinker. —Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

Rhymes for drivable

• survivable