Meaning & use
potable
Safe, clean, and suitable to be consumed as drinking water.
See it in a sentence
After the storm, residents were warned that tap water was no longer potable.
The expedition carried filters to make river water potable during the long trek.
A note on using this word
Potable is mainly used in formal, technical, or emergency contexts; drinkable is the everyday equivalent.
Words with a similar meaning
drinkable
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Words with an opposite meaning
undrinkablecontaminated
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