dominable
dominable adjective: subject to domination; able to be dominated.
Adjective
dominable (comparative more dominable, superlative most dominable)
- Subject to domination; able to be dominated.
- One part of the science of God is dominable by reason, is capable of being rationally cognised : this is the natural science of God, metaphysics.1861, Isaak August Dorner, History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ
- Geertz, a pioneer of these processes (they are not yet frozen into "methods"), recognizes them as ways of handling the new world that has borne itself since World War II: a world of colliding cultures no longer dominated by Europeans and Americans, and no longer dominable by anyone.2003, Philip Auslander, Performance: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, →ISBN, page 289
- Order bounded in the universal completion.
- An important tool for the study of laterally complete Riesz spaces is the notion of the dominable set, which is introduced next.1978, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Owen Burkinshaw, Locally solid Riesz spaces, →ISBN, page 170
Forms of dominable
| comparative | more dominable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most dominable |
Origin of dominable
From dominate + -able.
Questions about dominable
- What does dominable mean?
- Dominable means subject to domination; able to be dominated.
- What part of speech is dominable?
- Dominable is an adjective.
Words near dominable in the dictionary
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