readableread‧a‧ble /ˈriːdəbəl/ adjective 
The book is informative and highly readable.2writing or print that is readable is clear and easy to read SYN legible—readability /ˌriːdəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable] → machine-readable
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Her articles are always readable and informative.
- This is a well-written and readable introduction to the subject of linguistics.
- Toobin's book is a dense yet readable account of the O.J. Simpson trial.
- Closer examination will show that the document is more readable and links to other subjects are helpful.
- Fascinating and highly readable, this book will satisfy scholars as well as more casual readers.
- It is readable, reasonably comprehensive and its recommendations, when I have been able to check them out, seem sane.
- It is one of his best and most readable books.
- It was brief, pithy and, like everything Lewis wrote in prose, hugely readable.
- Rather, it serves as an eminently readable reference book for those considering a life in food biz.
Longman Language Activatorenjoyable or interesting to read
easy and interesting or enjoyable to read: · This is a well-written and readable introduction to the subject of linguistics.· Her articles are always readable and informative.
something that is well-written has been written in a good, clear style that makes it enjoyable or interesting to read: · The article was well written, informative and enjoyable.· This is a clever and well-written play.· Well-written notes are as good as any textbook and easier to absorb.
a book or piece of writing that is worth reading is good enough or interesting enough to make you want to read it: · Have you seen Amis' latest book? It's worth reading.be well worth reading: · It's an interesting book, and well worth reading.
if you say that something makes interesting reading , you mean that it is interesting to read because it contains new or surprising information: · The story of their journey makes interesting reading.· The latest report on educational standards in our schools makes very interesting reading.
informal if a book is a good read , it is enjoyable - use this when giving your opinion about a novel etc: · Her latest book is clever, funny, and well-written - a very good read.
spoken a book that has an interesting or exciting story that makes you want to continue reading it to find out what happens next: · Stephen King's latest novel is, as usual, a real page-turner.
informal use this to talk about a book that is so interesting and exciting that you do not want to stop reading it until you get to the end: · "Unputdownable", raved the literary critic Helen Jewson, "I read it at one sitting".· This book might be an unputdownable expose of London's underworld, but its moral message is highly dubious.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The book is informative and highly readable.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The book is informative and highly readable.· Sir Ian provides an eminently readable and always scholarly account of these very diverse matters.· Rather, it serves as an eminently readable reference book for those considering a life in food biz.· This, combined with the richness of the data, makes the material eminently readable even for the non-researcher.
· In common with Boyd's previous works the text is authoritative while at the same time highly readable.· Fascinating and highly readable, this book will satisfy scholars as well as more casual readers.· The Intimate Machine raises many issues concerning the social impact of computers in an invigorating and highly readable manner.· This highly readable account deserves a wide audience and should provoke serious debate.· A well researched, highly readable account of the debt crisis.· Impassioned, angry, funny, highly readable.· The result is absorbing and highly readable.· As anyone who had heard Professor Jennings lecture will expect, the style is highly readable as well as informative.
· Macros are a well supported feature of A86 and certainly help you make your code more readable for others.· Graphics are generally more readable when explanatory variables are shown along a horizontal axis and outcome variables vertically.· The editor has performed an excellent task in ensuring that the chapters follow a coherent pattern which makes it more readable.· What makes this book even more readable though are the superb colour photographs and three-dimensional drawings.· Closer examination will show that the document is more readable and links to other subjects are helpful.
· Often the interviews are very readable material indeed.· Anthony Storr is also very readable.· He has produced a very readable text, with many case studies, which I enjoyed dipping into.· Joking apart, there are a few errors, mainly of pronunciation and transcription, that mar Chiaro's otherwise very readable book.· This is a very readable book, which will catch and keep the attention.· Overall the book is well presented, clear, concise, and very readable.· What it does do very obviously is to construct a narrative, and a very readable one.· However, these are insufficient to detract from a very readable and extensive account of modern mass spectrometry.
NOUN· It is an immensely readable book, yet it treats its important subject with insight and responsibility.· It is one of his best and most readable books.· Joking apart, there are a few errors, mainly of pronunciation and transcription, that mar Chiaro's otherwise very readable book.· This is a very readable book, which will catch and keep the attention.
· The review deals with undergraduate courses and manages to condense a great deal of material into a concise and readable form.· The thesaurus may be kept in machine readable form and sections printed only as required.· The required list of words, or lexicon, can be acquired from a standard dictionary in machine readable form.
WORD FAMILYnounreadreaderreadershipreadingreadabilityadjectivereadable ≠ unreadableverbread
1interesting and enjoyable to read, and easy to understand OPP unreadablevery/highly/eminently readable The book is informative and highly readable.2writing or print that is readable is clear and easy to read SYN legible—readability /ˌriːdəˈbɪləti/ noun [uncountable] → machine-readable