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damageable

damageable adjective: hurtful; pernicious.

Adjective

damageable (comparative more damageable, superlative most damageable)

  1. (obsolete) Hurtful; pernicious.
    • That it be not damageable vnto your royall maiestie.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
    • Verily experience makes us thereby feele and undergoe many damageable treasons.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage.

Forms of damageable

comparativemore damageable
superlativemost damageable

Origin of damageable

From damage + -able.

Words formed from damageable

Questions about damageable

What does damageable mean?
Damageable means hurtful; pernicious.
What part of speech is damageable?
Damageable is an adjective.

Words near damageable in the dictionary

  1. damage control
  2. damage controls
  3. damage feasant
  4. damageabilities
  5. damageability
  6. damageable
  7. damageableness
  8. damaged
  9. damaged goods
  10. damagee
  11. damagees

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