affordable

English

Etymology

From afford +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈfɔː(ɹ).də.bəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈfɔɹ.də.bəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

affordable (comparative more affordable, superlative most affordable)

1. Able to be afforded; inexpensive or reasonably priced.

   Synonym: see at inexpensive § Synonyms

   Antonyms: unaffordable, expensive; see also Thesaurus:expensive

   Hypernyms: attainable, obtainable

   Coordinate terms: semiaffordable, semi-affordable

   an affordable vacation in the local area

   • 2024 June 13, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, “Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.

Derived terms

• affordable housing
• affordably (adverb)

 

Translations

able to be afforded

• Armenian: մատչելի (hy) (matčʻeli)
• Belarusian: даступны (be) (dastupny)
• Catalan: assequible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 支付得起的 (zh) (zhīfùdeqǐ de), 付得起的 (fùdeqǐ de), 買得起的／买得起的 (zh) (mǎideqǐ de), 實惠價格／实惠价格 (shíhuì jiàgé), 優惠價格／优惠价格 (yōuhuì jiàgé)

• Danish: overkommelig
• Dutch: betaalbaar (nl)
• Finnish: kohtuuhintainen
• French: abordable (fr), à un prix abordable, pas trop cher
• German: erschwinglich (de)
• Hungarian: megfizethető (hu)
• Irish: d'acmhainn, de ghustal
• Italian: conveniente (it), vantaggioso (it)
• Japanese: 価格が手頃 (かかくがてごろ, kakaku ga tegoro)
• Korean: 알맞은 (ko) (almajeun), 적당한 (jeokdanghan)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overkommelig

• Polish: niedrogi, przystępny (pl)
• Portuguese: acessível (pt)
• Russian: досту́пный (ru) (dostúpnyj)
• Spanish: asequible (es), económico (es)
• Swedish: överkomlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: досту́пний (dostúpnyj)