assignable

[uh-sahy-nuh-buh l]

capable of being specified: The word has no assignable meaning in our language.

capable of being attributed: This work is assignable to a 12th-century poet.

Law. capable of being assigned.

Nearby words

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at assign, -able

Related forms

as·sign·a·bil·i·ty, nounas·sign·a·bly, adverbnon·as·sign·a·bil·i·ty, nounnon·as·sign·a·ble, adjective

non·as·sign·a·bly, adverbun·as·sign·a·ble, adjectiveun·as·sign·a·bly, adverb

The calamities of authors are often assignable to the very circumstances that made them authors.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850|Various
Absence of assignable motive an evidence of such insanity as should exempt from responsibility!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 421, November 1850|Various
He examined these phenomena afterwards, and decided in his own mind that they were assignable to fear.
Young Mr. Barter's Repentance|David Christie Murray
But the total absence of all assignable motive—an infirm octogenarian; no, that is not it.
A Siren|Thomas Adolphus Trollope

The Utilitarian system might be both imperfect and dogmatic; but it had scarcely to contend with any clear and assignable rival.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen