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

At the end of a trying race where Red Bull made a series of setup changes in parc ferme to try and make the car more drivable, Lawson sounded at a loss when talking to his engineer. —Luke Smith, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025

Fazio shaped the 16th into a drivable par-4 in 2013. —Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 13 May 2025

This summer, the show will travel to the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, having already appeared earlier this year at the Kin Museum of Contemporary art in Kiruna, a Swedish city drivable from Marakatt-Labba’s hometown of Idivuoma. —Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 Apr. 2025

And then there are the Oceano Dunes, just to the south—California’s only drivable beach and a true adrenaline playground. —Cliff Lewis, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1832, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

Rhymes for drivable

• survivable