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skimmable

adj

Etymology

From skim + -able.

  1. derived from *skew-✻
  2. derived from *skūmaz✻ — “foam”
  3. derived from *skūm✻ — “froth, foam”
  4. derived from escumer
  5. inherited from skemen
  6. suffixed as skimmable — “skim + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of, or (especially) optimized for, being skimmed (read through quickly).

    • Nearly all documentation of business processes should be skimmable, with the summaries clearly differentiated from the detailed expositions.

  2. Worthy only of being skimmed rather than closely read

    Worthy only of being skimmed rather than closely read; that is, not worthy of close reading.

    • Though it’s a short book, “The Downhill Lie” becomes skimmable at such moments.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for skimmable. 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