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contortable

contortable adjective: able to contort; flexible, malleable.

Adjective

contortable (comparative more contortable, superlative most contortable)

  1. Able to contort; flexible, malleable.
    • This is the imaginative labor that our extended nervous system demands of us. Without that labor, information remains an abstract clay, endlessly contortable for those who might benefit from its adjustment and eternally delightful to those who prefer a malleable dream world to a concrete reality.2025 August 11, Trevor Quirk, “I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of contortable

comparativemore contortable
superlativemost contortable

Origin of contortable

From contort + -able.

Questions about contortable

What does contortable mean?
Contortable means able to contort; flexible, malleable.
What part of speech is contortable?
Contortable is an adjective.

Words near contortable in the dictionary

  1. contorniates
  2. contorno
  3. contorsion
  4. contorsional
  5. contort
  6. contortable
  7. contorted
  8. contortedly
  9. contortedness
  10. contorter
  11. contorters

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