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succeedable

succeedable adjective: able or likely to meet or be met with success.

Adjective

succeedable (comparative more succeedable, superlative most succeedable)

  1. (nonstandard) Able or likely to meet or be met with success.
    • However others may hold back, any Man who intends for Heaven in the Right Road discovers to himself and the World his insincerity; if he forbear to enter without delay upon this Duty: Now after it is become plain and succeedable, however the omission might have been excused hitherto by...1700, [Francis Grant, Lord Cullen], A Discourse concerning the Execution of the Laws, made against Prophaneness, etc., page 24
    • I should have thought the Assyrian tale very succeedable. I saw, in Mr. Wedderburn Webster's poetry, that he had written my epitaph; I would rather have written his. The thing I have sent you, you will see at a glimpse, could[…]1817 March 9, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, “Letter to Mr. Murray”, in R. E. Prothero, editor, The Works of Lord Byron. […] Letters and Journals, volume 4, published 1900, page 71
  2. (rare) Able to be succeeded or passed on.
    • […], it is said that such a trust is not succeedable for the reason that a court "could not appoint a successor trustee because it could not invest him with the confidence of the testator." Hinckley v. Hinckley, […]1909, Reports of cases argued and determined in Ohio courts of record except Supreme and Circuit, page 271
    • Vogel said he was convinced that while Wolpe had a remarkable career, "he is succeedable. He's most noted for his wonderful oratory, but he wasn't all things to all people, nobody in his position ever is."2003, Stephen Fried, The New Rabbi, Bantam, →ISBN, page 188

Forms of succeedable

comparativemore succeedable
superlativemost succeedable

Origin of succeedable

From succeed + -able.

Questions about succeedable

What does succeedable mean?
Succeedable means able or likely to meet or be met with success.
What part of speech is succeedable?
Succeedable is an adjective.

Words near succeedable in the dictionary

  1. succedent
  2. succedents
  3. succedes
  4. succeding
  5. succeed
  6. succeedable
  7. succeeded
  8. succeeder
  9. succeeders
  10. succeedest
  11. succeeding

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