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colonisable

colonisable is the alternative form of colonizable.

Meaning of colonizable

Adjective

colonizable (comparative more colonizable, superlative most colonizable)

  1. Capable of being colonized.
    • Gazing at the magniscreen, he rubbed his palms together in satisfaction. His ship was swinging smoothly in an orbit high above a newly-discovered planet, and the magniscreen was focused on the landscape below. No Dal ship had ever been in this part of the galaxy before, and it was comforting to...1957 July, Randall Garrett, “The Best Policy”, in Astounding Science Fiction

Forms of colonisable

comparativemore colonisable
superlativemost colonisable

Origin of colonisable

From colonise + -able.

Questions about colonisable

What is colonisable the alternative form of?
Colonisable is the alternative form of colonizable.

Words near colonisable in the dictionary

  1. Colonie
  2. colonied
  3. colonies
  4. colonigenic
  5. colonimetric
  6. colonisable
  7. colonisation
  8. colonisational
  9. colonisationist
  10. colonisations
  11. colonise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonisable (page history and authors); colonizable (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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