associable
Americanadjective
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capable of being associated.
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(of a nation or state) belonging to an economic association.
noun
Other Word Forms
- associability noun
- associableness noun
- nonassociability noun
- nonassociable adjective
- unassociable adjective
- unassociably adverb
Etymology
Origin of associable
First recorded in 1605–15; associ(ate) + -able
Example Sentences
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For the objects of any two ideas need not have co- existed in the same sensation in order to become mutually associable.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
What expansion, what liberty of heart, in speech: how associable to music, to singing, the written lines!
From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Pater, Walter
According to Chladni, these concomitants occurred, and to me they seem—rather brutal?—or not associable with something so soft and gentle as a fall of pollen?
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
In short, nothing of the extravagance of the time, on either side, is associable with the outset of Jeffrey's career.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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