compassable
compassable · more compassable · most compassable
Capable of being compassed or accomplishedCapable of being compassed or accomplished.
Meaning
1 sensesCapable of being compassed or accomplished.
February 11 1780, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons We want many things compassable only by the help of other beings like ourselves. They want things compassable within our Help.
Origin
From compass + -able.From compass + -able.
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Forms
more compassable, most compassable| Comparative | more compassable Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most compassable Lesson |
regular
Word family
1 related wordsDeriveduncompassable
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.