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rationable

rationable adjective: suitable for being rationed.

Adjective (1)

rationable (not comparable)

  1. Suitable for being rationed.
    • Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat.2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys

Adjective (2)

rationable (comparative more rationable, superlative most rationable)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of rational or reasonable.
    • Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action.1952 December, William Ernest Hocking, “Problems of World Order in the Light of Recent Philosophical Discussion”, in The American Political Science Review, volume XLVI, number 4, Menasha, Wis....
    Synonyms:
    rational or reasonable

Synonyms of rationable

  • rational or reasonable

Forms of rationable

comparativemore rationable
superlativemost rationable

Origin of rationable

From ration + -able. Piecewise doublet of reasonable.

From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis. Doublet of reasonable.

Words formed from rationable

Questions about rationable

What does rationable mean?
Rationable means suitable for being rationed.
What part of speech is rationable?
Rationable is an adjective.

Words near rationable in the dictionary

  1. ration coupon
  2. ration coupons
  3. ration stamp
  4. ration stamps
  5. rationability
  6. rationable
  7. rationably
  8. rational
  9. rational basis review
  10. rational choice theory
  11. rational dress

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