gradable

Able to form degrees or grades

Adjective

  1. Able to form degrees or grades
  2. Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.
    • Hot and cold are gradable antonyms. - 2007, James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith, Semantics: A Coursebook:

    Synonyms: comparable

    Antonyms: non-gradable ungradable

  3. steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle

Origin

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.

Antonyms

ungradable

Derived

gradability gradable antonym gradably non-gradable

Noun

  1. A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.

Forms

gradables