Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

Showing results for violable. Search instead for violably.

violable

American

[vahy-uh-luh-buhl] / ˈvaɪ ə lə bəl /

adjective

capable of being violated.

a violable precept.

Other Word Forms

nonviolability noun
nonviolable adjective
nonviolableness noun
nonviolably adverb
unviolable adjective
unviolableness noun
unviolably adverb
violability noun
violableness noun
violably adverb

Etymology

Origin of violable

1425–75; late Middle English: destructive < Latin violābilis, equivalent to violā ( re ) to violate + -bilis -ble

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.