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leavable

leavable adjective: capable of being left, or departed from.

Adjective

leavable (comparative more leavable, superlative most leavable)

  1. Capable of being left, or departed from.
    • They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […]1995, Paul West, The tent of orange mist, page 210
  2. Capable of being left behind.
    • Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third.2011, Rob Grant, Fat
  3. (theory of gambling) Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

Forms of leavable

comparativemore leavable
superlativemost leavable

Origin of leavable

From leave + -able.

Words formed from leavable

Questions about leavable

What does leavable mean?
Leavable means capable of being left, or departed from.
What part of speech is leavable?
Leavable is an adjective.

Words near leavable in the dictionary

  1. leats
  2. leatwright
  3. leatwrights
  4. leaue
  5. leavability
  6. leavable
  7. leave
  8. leave a lot to be desired
  9. leave a mark
  10. leave a sour taste in one's mouth
  11. leave a stone unturned

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