forgivable
forgivable adjective: able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
Adjective
forgivable (comparative more forgivable, superlative most forgivable)
- Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
- It's even forgivable here when the band sometimes sounds as though they've phoned in the Stonesy swagger, because when they're on, the Hellacopters sound like the best garage rock/bar band in the world.2004, CMJ New Music Report, number 872, page 6
- In retrospect, the misunderstanding about the plan was forgivable […]2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Hachette UK, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- excusable, pardonable, venial, remissable
- Antonyms:
- unforgivable, unvenial
- Of a loan, or a portion of it: such that repayment may be deferred for a period, or canceled, by the lender, if the borrower meets certain obligations.
forgivable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Malayalam
forgivable in Hindi
- forgivable, pardonable
- क्षम्य kṣamya
forgivable in Tamil
- மன்னிக்கத்தக்க, மன்னிக்கப்படக்கூடிய
forgivable in Marathi
- forgivable, pardonable
- क्षम्य kṣamya
forgivable in Malayalam
- excusable, pardonable, condonable
- ക്ഷന്തവ്യ, ക്ഷമിക്കത്തക്ക, ക്ഷമിക്കാവുന്ന, ക്ഷാമ്യമായ, ക്ഷമിതവ്യ, മാപ്പുനല്കാവുന്ന
Synonyms of forgivable
- excusable
- pardonable
- venial
- remissable
Antonyms
Forms of forgivable
| comparative | more forgivable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most forgivable |
Origin of forgivable
From forgive + -able. Partially displaced non-native Middle English pardonable (“capable of being pardoned, forgivable”) from Old French pardonable (“forgivable”).
Words formed from forgivable
Questions about forgivable
- What does forgivable mean?
- Forgivable means able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
- What is forgivable in Hindi?
- Forgivable in Hindi is क्षम्य (kṣamya). See Forgivable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is forgivable?
- Forgivable is an adjective.
Words near forgivable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: forgivable (page history and authors); क्षम्य (Hindi) (page history and authors); forgivable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); क्षम्य (Marathi) (page history and authors); forgivable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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