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corruptible

corruptible adjective: bribable, that can be bought.

Adjective

corruptible (comparative more corruptible, superlative most corruptible)

  1. bribable, that can be bought
    • They systematically corrupt a very corruptible race, (for some time a growing nuisance amongst you)1791, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Mr. Burke: To a Member of the National Assembly; in Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs, Paris, Printed, Dublin, reprinted by William Porter...
    Synonyms:
    corruptable
  2. perishable, subject to decay
    • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Peter 1:18.
      that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and golde,
    Antonyms:
    incorruptible

Noun

corruptible (plural corruptibles)

  1. (archaic) That which may decay and perish; the human body.
    • The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:53.
      For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortall must put on immortalitie.

corruptible meaning in Malayalam

corruptible in Malayalam

അഴുകിപ്പോകത്തക്ക, മലിനമാക്കത്തക്ക, ദുഷിക്കത്തക്ക

Synonyms of corruptible

Antonyms

Forms of corruptible

Adjective
comparativemore corruptible
superlativemost corruptible
Noun
pluralcorruptibles

Origin of corruptible

From Middle English corruptible, from Latin corruptibilis.

Words formed from corruptible

Questions about corruptible

What does corruptible mean?
Corruptible means bribable, that can be bought.
What is corruptible in Malayalam?
Corruptible in Malayalam is അഴുകിപ്പോകത്തക്ക, മലിനമാക്കത്തക്ക, ദുഷിക്കത്തക്ക. See Corruptible meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is corruptible?
Corruptible can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near corruptible in the dictionary

  1. corrupters
  2. corruptest
  3. corrupteth
  4. corruptful
  5. corruptibility
  6. corruptible
  7. corruptibleness
  8. corruptibles
  9. corruptibly
  10. corruptician
  11. corrupticians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corruptible (page history and authors); corruptible (Malayalam 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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