steerable

1. 1.

   capable of being steered or directed

   Synonymsdirigible

   Similarmanageable

Questions about steerable

What does steerable mean?

steerable means "capable of being steered or directed".

How many syllables are in steerable?

steerable has 3 syllables: stee-ra-ble. The stress falls on "stee".

What is another word for steerable?

Close synonyms include dirigible. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is steerable a common word?

steerable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.