pocketable

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adjective

Able to be put in one's pocket.

Similar
pocket-sizedpocket-sizesmalllittle
OriginEnglish pocket ← Middle English pocket ← Anglo-Norman poket →
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Meanings

adjectivepocketable (comparative more pocketable, superlative most pocketable)

comparative more pocketable · superlative most pocketable

  1. Able to be put in one's pocket.

    While some people will probably always carry around a laptop, devices like the Tilt are breaking down the wall between luggable and pocketable.

    2007 October 11, John Biggs, “With a Keyboard and a Pop-Up Screen, Is This a Computer or a Cellphone?”, in New York Times

    Synonyms: pocket-sized

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveAble to be put in one's pocket.

Similar
pocket-sized

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivesmall enough to be carried in a garment pocket

Similar
pocket-sizepocket-sizedsmalllittle
Also see
pocket-sized

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*puhô
  2. Frankish*pokō
  3. Old Frenchpoche
  4. Anglo-Normanpoket
  5. Middle Englishpocket
  6. Englishpocket
  7. Englishpocketable

From pocket + -able.

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APA

pocketable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pocketable

MLA

“pocketable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pocketable. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pocketable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pocketable.

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