powerable

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adjective

Capable of being powered.

“This toy is powerable by batteries.”

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Meanings

adjectivepowerable (comparative more powerable, superlative most powerable)

comparative more powerable · superlative most powerable

  1. Capable of being powered.

    This toy is powerable by batteries.

  2. obsoleteCapable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.

    The infinite God, He who is strictly, properly infinite, knows all the knowable and can effect all the powerable.

    1860, John Young, The Province of Reason
  3. obsoleteCapable of exerting power; powerful.

    you may see how powerable Time is in altering tongues

    1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC

Origin

From power + -able.

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