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mouldable

mouldable adjective: able to be moulded; plastic.

Adjective

mouldable (comparative more mouldable, superlative most mouldable)

  1. (UK) Able to be moulded; plastic
    • The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of...1651, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum

Forms of mouldable

comparativemore mouldable
superlativemost mouldable
alternative formmoldable

Origin of mouldable

From mould + -able.

Words formed from mouldable

Questions about mouldable

What does mouldable mean?
Mouldable means able to be moulded; plastic.
What part of speech is mouldable?
Mouldable is an adjective.

Words near mouldable in the dictionary

  1. mould loft
  2. mould lofts
  3. mould-board
  4. mould-breaking
  5. mouldability
  6. mouldable
  7. mouldboard
  8. mouldboard plough
  9. mouldboard ploughs
  10. mouldboards
  11. moulded

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