Meanings
alternative transferrable · alternative archaic transferrible
- not comparableAble to be transferred.
To start a new career, you need transferable skills.
1 more example
The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London: […] J. S. Jordan, […], →OCLC, page 129
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecapable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
adjectivelegally transferable to the ownership of another
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From transfer + -able. Compare inferable, deferrable.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan transferible
- transferibleable to be transferred
Danish overførbar
- overførbarable to be transferred
Finnish siirrettävä
- siirrettäväable to be transferred
French transférable
- transférableable to be transferred
Italian cedibile, trasferibile
- cedibileable to be transferred
- trasferibileable to be transferred
- trasmissibileable to be transferred
Latin ambulātilis, ambulātōrius
- ambulātilisable to be transferred
- ambulātōriusable to be transferred
Norwegian Bokmål overførbar
- overførbarable to be transferred
Portuguese transferível
- transferívelable to be transferred
Swedish överförbar
- överförbarable to be transferred
Cite this entry
transferable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transferable
“transferable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transferable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transferable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transferable.
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