importable

Capable of being imported.

Adjective obsolete

  1. Insupportable, unbearable.
    • So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Origin

Etymology tree Middle French importablebor. English importable Borrowed from Middle French importable.

Forms

more importable most importable

Derived

importably

Adjective Entry 2

  1. Capable of being imported.

Origin

Etymology tree English import 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 importable From import + -able.

Forms

more importable most importable

Derived

nonimportable

Noun

  1. Something that can be imported.
    • Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables. - 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren,...

Forms

importables