incarcerable

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adjective

Suitable for incarceration; imprisonable.

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Meanings

adjectiveincarcerable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSuitable for incarceration; imprisonable.

    The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent.

    1999, Jonathan Hal Sadowsky, Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria

Origin

From incarcerate + -able.

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APA

incarcerable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incarcerable

MLA

“incarcerable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incarcerable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incarcerable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incarcerable.

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