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incarcerable

incarcerable adjective: suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.

Adjective

incarcerable (not comparable)

  1. Suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.
    • The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent.1999, Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria

Origin of incarcerable

From incarcerate + -able.

Questions about incarcerable

What does incarcerable mean?
Incarcerable means suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.
What part of speech is incarcerable?
Incarcerable is an adjective.

Words near incarcerable in the dictionary

  1. incapsulates
  2. incapsulating
  3. incapsulation
  4. incapsulations
  5. incar
  6. incarcerable
  7. incarcerate
  8. incarcerated
  9. incarcerates
  10. incarcerating
  11. incarceration

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