accessible

easy to reach or understand

Roots

Other words with the ced / cess / ceed root

Accessible means there is a way in: the person, place, idea, or price can be reached.

The teacher made the abstruse proof accessible with one diagram.

Access is approach. Accessible adds -ible: able to be approached, reached, or understood. Keep the contrast with recede: one opens a way in; the other pulls away.

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