potable
/ˈpəʊtəb(ə)l
/adjective formal
Safe to drink; drinkable: there is no supply of potable water available...
- How could you think of increasing your salary while most of your ordinary citizens have nothing to eat and no potable water to drink?
- So we are just using normal potable water for drinking.
- So, it's the water-borne illnesses, the lack of access to clean, potable water.
Derivatives
potability
- Water samples from 25 different locations in Chennai, collected from wells and bore wells were analysed for their potability in the Centre's laboratory.
- The human, for example, may be interested in the pond's water source, the potability of the water, or the potential for irrigation.
- The standpipe water is piped from the mountain and has been tested for potability by Oxfam.
Origin
Late Middle English: from French potable, from late Latin potabilis, from Latin potare 'to drink'.
Rhymes
- mountain mahogany
- mountain male fern
- mountain man
- mountain maple
- mountain mass
- mountain meal
- mountain mint
- mountain mockingbird
- mountain nyala
- mountain nymph
- mountain oak
- mountain of piety
- mountainous
- mountainously
- mountainousness
- mountain oyster
- mountain parrot
- mountain parsley
- mountain partridge
- mountain pepper
- mountain pheasant
- mountain pigeon
- mountain pine
- mountain pine beetle
- mountain pink