adj
Meaning 1
Able to form degrees or grades
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gradable
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɡɹeɪdəbəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: comparable
Antonyms: non-gradable, ungradable
adj
Meaning 3
steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
capable of being graded (for quality or rank or size etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree English grade Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English gradable From grade + -able.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: stupňovatelný — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- Finnish: suhteellinen — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- French: graduable — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- French: gradable — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- French: comparable — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- German: steigerbar — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- German: steigerungsfähig — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- German: graduierbar — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- German: komparierbar — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- Hungarian: fokozható — grammar: able to occur in degrees
- Polish: stopniowalny — grammar: able to occur in degrees