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gradable

adj
/ˈɡɹeɪdəbəl/

Etymology

From grade + -able.

  1. derived from *gʰradʰ-✻
  2. derived from *graðus✻
  3. derived from gradus
  4. borrowed from grade
  5. suffixed as gradable — “grade + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to form degrees or grades

  2. Able to occur in varying degrees

    Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.

    • Hot and cold are gradable antonyms.

  3. steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.

The neighborhood

Derived

gradability, gradable antonym, gradably, non-gradable

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA