checkable

Able to be checked.

Adjective

  1. Able to be checked.

    Synonyms: verifiable confirmable

    Antonyms: uncheckable unverifiable unconfirmable

    1. Able to be verified (confirmed).

    2. Able to be marked with a check mark (a tick mark).

      • The checkable box acts as a visually recognizable icon next to its discriminating text. - 2003, Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design, page 340:

      Synonyms: tickable

      Antonyms: uncheckable untickable

    3. Able to be restrained and controlled.

      Synonyms: restrainable containable controllable governable

      Antonyms: uncheckable unrestrainable uncontainable uncontrollable ungovernable

    4. (finance, not comparable) Alternative form of chequable.

      Antonyms: uncheckable

      Coordinate Terms: collateralizable

Origin

Etymology tree English check 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 checkable From check + -able.

Forms

more checkable most checkable

Related

check valve uncheckability

Derived

checkability probabilistically checkable proof uncheckable