Word.ws English Dictionary

shortenable

shortenable adjective: that may be shortened.

Adjective

shortenable (comparative more shortenable, superlative most shortenable)

  1. That may be shortened.

Antonyms of shortenable

Forms of shortenable

comparativemore shortenable
superlativemost shortenable

Origin of shortenable

From shorten + -able.

Questions about shortenable

What does shortenable mean?
Shortenable means that may be shortened.
What part of speech is shortenable?
Shortenable is an adjective.

Words near shortenable in the dictionary

  1. Shortell
  2. Shortells
  3. shorten
  4. shorten down
  5. shorten up
  6. shortenable
  7. shortened
  8. shortened down
  9. shortened up
  10. shortener
  11. shorteners

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shortenable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shortenable.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shortenable. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.