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dividable

dividable adjective: capable of being divided (into fractions or parts).

Adjective

dividable (comparative more dividable, superlative most dividable)

  1. Capable of being divided (into fractions or parts).
    • a dividable plant; a dividable lot; dividable property
    • The whole Gospel is generally dividable into 1. Historical Narrations. 2. Moral Institutions and Motives. 3. Dogmatical Mysteries.1674, Seth Ward, “An Apology for the Mysteries of the Gospel” in Seven Sermons, London: James Collins, p. 14
    Synonyms:
    divisible
  2. (obsolete) Capable of being separated (from something).
    • Some sorts of hot Baths are as naturally Sulphureous, as the Sea-water is Salt: but, all those Effects of Minerals, Sulphurs, and the like, are dividable from, and also may be joyn’d to, the Body of water, without any disturbance to the nature of water;1668, Margaret Cavendish, Ground of Natural Philosophy, London, Part 12, Chapter 17, p. 199
  3. (obsolete) Divided; separated; parted.
    • Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Synonyms of dividable

Forms of dividable

comparativemore dividable
superlativemost dividable

Origin of dividable

From divide + -able.

Words formed from dividable

Questions about dividable

What does dividable mean?
Dividable means capable of being divided (into fractions or parts).
What part of speech is dividable?
Dividable is an adjective.

Words near dividable in the dictionary

  1. divey
  2. divi
  3. divi-divi
  4. divicine
  5. dividability
  6. dividable
  7. dividant
  8. divide
  9. divide and choose
  10. divide and conquer
  11. divide and rule

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