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compellable

compellable adjective: capable of being compelled or constrained.

Adjective

compellable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being compelled or constrained.
    • The spouse of an accused party is not generally compellable to give evidence against him.

compellable meaning in Tamil

compellable in Tamil

கட்டாயப்படுத்தக் கூடிய

Origin of compellable

Inherited from Middle English compellable.

Words formed from compellable

Questions about compellable

What does compellable mean?
Compellable means capable of being compelled or constrained.
What is compellable in Tamil?
Compellable in Tamil is கட்டாயப்படுத்தக் கூடிய. See Compellable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is compellable?
Compellable is an adjective.

Words near compellable in the dictionary

  1. compeered
  2. compeering
  3. compeers
  4. compel
  5. compel testimony
  6. compellable
  7. compellably
  8. compellance
  9. compellation
  10. compellations
  11. compellative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compellable (page history and authors); compellable (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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