importable
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French importable.
Adjective
importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)
- (obsolete) Insupportable, unbearable.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […]
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Etymology 2
From import + -able.
Adjective
importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)
- Capable of being imported.
Translations
able to be imported
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Noun
importable (plural importables)
- Something that can be imported.
- 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN):
- Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.
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Anagrams
- bitemporal
French
Adjective
importable (plural importables)
- importable
Further reading
- “importable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.