D defs.my
Menu ☰
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

-able

/(-ȧ*b'l)/ · -a·ble · IPA /əbl̩/
01 An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movabl…
  1. 1.
    An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.