aimable
Capable of being aimed.
Adjective not comparable
- Capable of being aimed.
- An apparatus for enabling a user to orient an aiming axis of an aimable device at a desired orientation with respect to a line of sight from the user to a target […] - 2000, Official Gazette of the United States Patent...
Origin
Etymology tree English aim 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 aimable From aim + -able.
Derived
Adjective rare
- Likeable, amiable.
- And almoſt all have their Crooks enriched with Devices, Cyphers and Ribands, and the propriety of their Habits, ſerves to render them more aimable: […] They inform themſelves with care, and they tell to all they meet,...
- Widowhood pityable in its ſolitary Loſs, but aimable and comely, when it is ordained with Gravity and Purity; […] Let me then, whilſt I have my Day of Life, divorſe Sin from me, and hate it mortally, becauſe it is an...
- He was beautiful in Perſon, and aimable in Temper, and, in a Word, was as compleat a Gentleman as the Catholick Court had bred for a long while. […] It is enough he knows what paſs’d was between two Lovers, well...
Origin
From French aimable. Doublet of amable.