accostable

Compare French accostable.

accostable (comparative more accostable, superlative most accostable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Approachable; affable.
   • 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home:

     Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter.

accoster +‎ -able

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔs.tabl/

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accostable (plural accostables)

1. approachable (of a person)
2. (nautical) dockable (at which you can land a boat)

• “accostable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.