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adj. - Capable of being reached or attained; Capable of being attained or accomplished.

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Usage examples (29)
  • Hobson's choice, as water was not to be found anywhere else at a come-at-able distance.
  • Poor girl! she was barely fifteen, and without this consent her little amount in the funds was not come-at-able until five immeasurable summers had "dragged their slow...
  • The next evening, two hampers, containing, as our purveyor assured us, "very prime 'uns," arrived at my rooms "from Mr S----, the wine merchant;" and, by daylight on the...
  • After these came a second set; among the most come-at-able of whom were Mr.. and Miss Bates, and Mr.. Goddard, three ladies almost always at the service of an invitation...
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