declinable

[ dih-klahy-nuh-buhl ]

/ dɪˈklaɪ nə bəl /

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adjective Grammar.

able to be declined.

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Origin of declinable

1520–30; <Middle French, equivalent to decliner to decline + -able-able; or decline + -able

OTHER WORDS FROM declinable

un·de·clin·a·ble, adjective

Words nearby declinable

déclassé, declassify, declaw, declension, declensional, declinable, declinate, declination, declinatory, declinature, decline

How to use declinable in a sentence

The same nouns may be partly declinable and partly indeclinable, and in some of their cases may have fallen out of use.
Cratylus|Plato
Hence the last vowel of the nominative, or in general of any declinable word, may be called the characteristic vowel.
Elements of Gaelic Grammar|Alexander Stewart
This has been written to show that verbs of languages in general are as naturally declinable as nouns.
A Handbook of the English Language|Robert Gordon Latham
In these examples the declinable adjectives are rendered negative in see.
The Indian in his Wigwam|Henry R. Schoolcraft

Of these, the first five are declinable; the other four are indeclinable.
Elements of Gaelic Grammar|Alexander Stewart