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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

compromisable en · ADJ

Etymology

From compromise + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being compromised or compromised upon.
    • The conjectured past of Isabel took mysterious hold of his father; therefore, the idea of his father tyrannized over his imagination; and the possible future of Isabel, as so essentially though indirectly compromisable by whatever course of conduct his mother might hereafter ignorantly pursue with regard to himself, as henceforth, through Isabel, forever altered to her; these considerations brought his mother with blazing prominence before him. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, page 77:
    • Our rights are not compromisable. 1991 April 6, Chris Nealon, “Amnesty Pressured To Include Gay Prisoners”, in Gay Community News, page 3:

Forms

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most compromisable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more compromisable Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

uncompromisable