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missable

adj
/ˈmɪsəbl̩/

Etymology

From miss + -able.

  1. inherited from *miss-✻ — “loss”
  2. derived from *miss✻
  3. inherited from miss — “loss, absence”
  4. inherited from misse
  5. inherited from *meyth₂-✻ — “to change, exchange, trade”
  6. inherited from *missijaną✻ — “to miss, go wrong, fail”
  7. inherited from *missijan✻
  8. inherited from missan — “to miss, escape the notice of a person”
  9. inherited from missen
  10. suffixed as missable — “miss + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to avoid detection.

    • Sherlock easily located the clue, but Watson considered it missable.

  2. Far from unmissable

    Far from unmissable; not worth watching or experiencing.

    • a missable costume drama

  3. Capable of being missed.

    • She was missable after a week away from home.

The neighborhood

Derived

unmissable

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for missable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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