superable

[soo-per-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being overcome; surmountable.

superable

/ -prəbəl, ˈsuːpərəbəl /

adjective

1. able to be surmounted or overcome

Other Word Forms

• superability noun
• superably adverb
• superableness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of superable¹

First recorded in 1620–30; from Latin superābilis, equivalent to superā(re) “to overcome” (derivative of super; super- ) + -bilis -ble

Word History and Origins

Origin of superable¹

C17: from Latin superābilis, from superāre to overcome

Example Sentences

All cultivation requires watchfulness and additional precautions, either more or less: you must not, for the sake of a few superable difficulties, resign the otherwise unattainable refinement effected by poetry.

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Whatever inertia may be, it is superable or destructible only by the force or motion of matter itself,—matter being incapable of rest.

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