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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Susceptible, capable, or worthy of a specified action: debatable.
  2. n. Inclined or given to a specified state or action: changeable.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An adjectival suffix; forms adjectives meaning:

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -ābilis, -ibilis : -ā- and -i-, thematic vowels + -bilis, adj. suff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

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  • “Each deal is "Like"-able as well and you can post comments on the deal's Facebook wall, adding an extra social layer on top of your typical coupon site.”

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. can
  2. abler
  3. fire-resistant
  4. en-
  5. -ible
  6. lasso cell
  7. unblamable
  8. hable
  9. Nietzsche
  10. incapable
  11. unable
  12. able-bodied
  13. quick study
  14. able-bodied seaman
  15. ability
  16. able
  17. flexile
  18. flexible
  19. possible
  20. strong
  21. a.
  22. affix
  23. afford
  24. ble
  25. h
  26. responsible
  27. shortsighted
  28. speak
  29. resistant
  30. ably
  31. -ably
  32. jog
  33. fire-retardant
  34. fledge
  35. maim
  36. mainpernable
  37. get
  38. irresponsible
  39. irresponsive
  40. isolationism
  41. jacana
  42. exclusory
  43. expandable
  44. eyas
  45. falsifiable
  46. farseeing
  47. intolerant
  48. inventive
  49. iron-on
  50. irreconcilable
  51. law
  52. match
  53. estimative
  54. lusty
  55. huntable
  1. enable
  2. English-speaking
  3. long-sighted
  4. lose
  5. dree
  6. durable
  7. locomotive
  8. cut
  9. directive
  10. disassemble
  11. disavowable
  12. discoursive
  13. discussive
  14. divining rod
  15. doughty
  16. impercipient
  17. impregnable
  18. incubator
  19. levy in mass
  20. decipher
  21. decisory
  22. depletive
  23. diagonalizable
  24. diodon
  25. mandatory
  26. writer
  27. combinative
  28. combinatorial
  29. combinatory
  30. compossible
  31. comprehendible
  32. to con answer
  33. corner
  34. could
  35. couth
  36. free
  37. great
  38. hardy
  39. heads-up
  40. hedgehog
  41. Hemiramphidae
  42. hold
  43. knocker
  44. fleet
  45. nait
  46. clairvoyant
  47. clear-thinking
  48. colugo
  49. g-spot
  50. calculating
  51. camisade
  52. cannot
  53. capaciate
  54. capacious
  55. cashable
  1. chamaeleon
  2. day-blind
  3. disvulnerable
  4. duck
  5. eurybathic
  6. euryhaline
  7. irrecognizant
  8. lochus
  9. necteric
  10. nest-aura
  11. nidifugous
  12. nod-crafty
  13. non-valent
  14. oceangoing
  15. octave-stretch
  16. œcoparasite
  17. oligonitrophile
  18. omnigerent
  19. omnilingual
  20. planocyte
  21. planospore
  22. plessigraph
  23. rain-stone
  24. retrocognition
  25. set
  26. shorthorn
  27. spokesman
  28. tekoretin
  29. tetrachromic
  30. unspeakable
  31. volipresence
  32. well-set
  33. uncharming
  34. unhardy
  35. unsucceedable
  36. weird
  37. well-willy
  38. whistle-cup
  39. wondered
  40. German-speaking
  41. getable
  42. juggle
  43. marksman
  44. mind-reader
  45. moun
  46. mow
  47. omnispective
  48. parity
  49. pigeon hawk
  50. producible
  51. pteropædes
  52. receptive
  53. reconciliatory
  54. renascible
  55. rote-song
  1. shad-frog
  2. shrinkable
  3. singio
  4. songful
  5. suffisant
  6. suffocative
  7. swayful
  8. anaptyxis
  9. bionic
  10. auxotrophic
  11. patatas
  12. spadefoot toad
  13. amphibious
  14. water witch
  15. aliterate
  16. two-handed
  17. Mandelblit
  18. hydraulic
  19. heterogynous
  20. weatherly
  21. incommutable
  22. -ful
  23. brinkmanship
  24. universal donor
  25. apposable
  26. autoclave
  27. autophagi
  28. banyan
  29. bastion
  30. Francophone
  31. free-swimming
  32. French-speaking
  33. fyke
  34. fyrd
  35. gammon
  36. all-round
  37. anabamous
  38. bastant
  39. bility
  40. bird spider
  41. bodied
  42. boy-queller
  43. campable
  44. colorific
  45. conficient
  46. conservable
  47. consultable
  48. contentable
  49. cudgel-proof
  50. depressive
  51. dove-cote
  52. earwitness
  53. endurant
  54. fear
  55. fleet-foot
  1. floaty
  2. flush
  3. gressible
  4. habile
  5. halt
  6. haul-bowlines
  7. hybridizable
  8. ichthyopatolite
  9. ideate
  10. ill
  11. imperceptive
  12. impetrative
  13. levitator
  14. lingy
  15. long-descended
  16. conversant
  17. dangerous
  18. survival of the fittest
  19. crinoid
  20. balance of power
  21. determinative
  22. mental health
  23. parrel
  24. diacritical
  25. lungfish
  26. mainstream
  27. mudskipper
  28. ectogenous
  29. enviable
  30. fictive
  31. Avogadro
  32. revoke
  33. subliminal
  34. restless
  35. vagile
  36. resolvent
  37. self-acting
  38. unemployable
  39. spooler
  40. fitness
  41. forgiving
  42. Maxwell's demon
  43. self-sufficient
  44. solidarity
  45. teachable
  46. sequestrate
  47. Global Positioning System
  48. geniculate
  49. serviceable
  50. self-sustaining
  51. moon-eyed
  52. unbreakable
  53. walking catfish
  54. shifty
  55. selective

tagging (11)

Words tagged ‘-able’

  1. approachable
  2. attainable
  1. commendable
  2. flammable
  1. increasable
  2. ineffable
  1. intractable
  2. superable
  1. toastable
  2. unforgivable
  1. unwinnable

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