expectable

Able to be expected.

Adjective

  1. Able to be expected.
    • Expectable losses are calculated into the final selling price.
    1. Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual.

    2. Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).

      • The jury could and did find that appellant's decision not to move was not a decision expectable of a reasonably prudent man to whom any backing vehicle means grave danger. - c. 1964, Donald R. Mergenhagen v. George R....
      • An argument can be made that the Marquesan view of certain states as expectable of 'persons' follows from these being equally examples of a common type of process. - 1987, Geoffrey M. White, John Kirkpatrick, Person,...
      • And that is the tragedy of the establishment of the diagnosis of PTSD. The presence of troubling war-related memories and associated negative reactions typically has much more to do with what is normal and expectable of...

Origin

From expect + -able.

Forms

more expectable most expectable

Derived

expectably inexpectable unexpectable