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comprisable

comprisable adjective: able to be contained or classified.

Adjective

comprisable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be contained or classified.
    • Under the general name of self-regarding interest (No. 14.) are comprisable the several particular interests, corresponding to all the several motives, that do not belong either to the social class (No. 10.) or the dissocial class (No. 11.)1817, Jeremy Bentham, A Table of the Springs of Action

Forms of comprisable

alternative form (rare)comprizable

Origin of comprisable

From comprise + -able.

Questions about comprisable

What does comprisable mean?
Comprisable means able to be contained or classified.
What part of speech is comprisable?
Comprisable is an adjective.

Words near comprisable in the dictionary

  1. comprimarios
  2. comprint
  3. comprinted
  4. comprinting
  5. comprints
  6. comprisable
  7. comprisal
  8. comprisals
  9. comprise
  10. comprised
  11. comprises

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