damageable

English

Etymology

From damage +‎ -able.

Adjective

damageable (comparative more damageable, superlative most damageable)

1. (obsolete) Hurtful; pernicious.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     That it be not damageable vnto your royall maiestie.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Verily experience makes us thereby feele and undergoe many damageable treasons.

2. Capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage.

Derived terms

• damageableness
• nondamageable
• undamageable

 

Translations

capable of being injured or weakened, susceptible to damage

• Italian: intaccabile, danneggiabile
• Manx: yn-jeeylley