motionable

motionable

English

Etymology

From motion +‎ -able.

Adjective

motionable (comparative more motionable, superlative most motionable)

1. Able to be moved or set in motion; movely.
   • 1899, Robert Seymour Bridges, Poetical Works of Robert Bridges:

     Yet found he not on heaven's face A task of cloud to clear ; There was no speck that he might chase Off the blue hemisphere, Nor vapour from the land to drive: The frost-bound country held Nought motionable or alive, [...]

   • 2006, Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner, Straw for the Fire:

     Sway, flowers, leaning like reeds in a wave, More motionable than insects.

   • 2007, Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:

     The girth ofit and the wharf of it and the wall; Stanching, quenching ocean of a motionable mind; [...]

   • 2012, Denis Healey, My Secret Planet:

     On the back of the sheet of paper on which he wrote this poem Hopkins scribbled one of his only poems about the sort of men he knew at Oxford: Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit Caps occasion with an intellectual fit.

2. Able to be motioned.