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importable

importable adjective: insupportable, unbearable.

Adjective (1)

importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)

  1. (obsolete) Insupportable, unbearable.
    • So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Adjective (2)

importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)

  1. Capable of being imported.

Noun

importable (plural importables)

  1. Something that can be imported.
    • Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN)

Forms of importable

Adjective
comparativemore importable
superlativemost importable
Noun
pluralimportables

Origin of importable

Borrowed from Middle French importable.

From import + -able.

Words formed from importable

Questions about importable

What does importable mean?
Importable means insupportable, unbearable.
What part of speech is importable?
Importable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near importable in the dictionary

  1. impopularly
  2. imporosity
  3. imporous
  4. import
  5. importability
  6. importable
  7. importables
  8. importably
  9. importance
  10. importances
  11. importancies

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