determinable

able to be determined or limited

Adjective

  1. able to be determined or limited
  2. able to be decided or settled by law
  3. Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

Origin

Etymology tree English determine 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 determinable From determine + -able.

Forms

more determinable most determinable

Antonyms

indeterminable undeterminable

Related

determinability determinably

Derived

determinableness determinablism fee simple determinable predeterminable term of years determinable

Noun

  1. An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
    • It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are. - 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in...

Forms

determinables