fishable

Able to be fished legally

Adjective

  1. Able to be fished legally
  2. Able to be fished in, able to be used for fishing
  3. Able to be used for fishing.
    • Even if it could be salvaged, it would have to almost entirely be remade before it was fishable again. - 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 77:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English fishable From fish + -able.

Forms

more fishable most fishable

Antonyms

nonfishable unfishable