borable
borable is the alternative form of boreable.
Meaning of boreable
Adjective
boreable (comparative more boreable, superlative most boreable)
- Capable of being bored or drilled into.
- One commercially available form of this type of bearing has a boreable 0.010 in.-thick lining of acetal copolymer, while another form has a thinner, 0.004 in.-thick, lining of the homopolymer.1967, Eric Reeves Braithwaite, Lubrication and lubricants, page 409
- Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.
- Some factory workers are intolerably bored by monotonous tasks; others prefer them. The boreable, on the other hand, develop on occasion the most furious initiative in their efforts to escape boredom.1948, Henry Hatfield, The Inventor and His World, page 32
Forms of borable
| comparative | more borable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most borable |
Words formed from borable
Questions about borable
- What is borable the alternative form of?
- Borable is the alternative form of boreable.
Words near borable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: borable (page history and authors); boreable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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