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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

leavable en · ADJ

Etymology

From leave + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being left, or departed from.
    • They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […] 1995, Paul West, The tent of orange mist, page 210:
  2. Capable of being left behind.
    • Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third. 2011, Rob Grant, Fat:
  3. (qualifier:theory of gambling) Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

Forms

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most leavable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more leavable Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unleavable