ADVISABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does advisable mean? 

• ADVISABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ADVISABLE has 1 sense:

1. worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise

  Familiarity information: ADVISABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVISABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise

Context example:

it is advisable to telephone first

Similar:

best; better ((comparative and superlative of 'well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable)

well (wise or advantageous and hence advisable)

Also:

prudent (careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment)

wise (having or prompted by wisdom or discernment)

Antonym:

inadvisable (not prudent or wise; not recommended)

Derivation:

advisability (the quality of being advisable)

advise (give advice to)

 Context examples 

Secrecy may be advisable; but still I cannot help wondering at its being practiced by him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She would not listen, therefore, to her daughter's proposal of being carried home; neither did the apothecary, who arrived about the same time, think it at all advisable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Equality of position and fortune is often advisable in such cases; and there are twenty years of difference in your ages.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

P.S. It may be advisable to superadd to the above, the statement that Mrs. Micawber is not in confidential possession of my intentions.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sailors slipped forward, setting the side-lights as they went, while the two hunters remained to sleep in the cabin, it not being deemed advisable to open the slide to the steerage companion-way.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If you are turning to the gym, don’t overdo things—another reason to go to the doctor to know your advisable limits and pacing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mrs Clay, who had been present while all this passed, now thought it advisable to leave the room, and Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims to theirs, but her sense of personal respect to her father prevented her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent. below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I think, on the contrary, when people shut themselves up entirely from society, it is a very bad thing; and that it is much more advisable to mix in the world in a proper degree, without living in it either too much or too little.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As nothing could well be done before morning, and as it would be at least advisable to wait till Lord Godalming should hear from Mitchell's, we decided not to take any active step before breakfast time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)