motionable

Able to be moved or set in motion.

Adjective

  1. Able to be moved or set in motion.
    • Yet found he not on heaven's face A task of cloud to clear ; There was no speck that he might chase Off the blue hemisphere, Nor vapour from the land to drive: The frost-bound country held Nought motionable or alive,...
    • Sway, flowers, leaning like reeds in a wave, More motionable than insects. - 2006, Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner, Straw for the Fire:
    • The girth ofit and the wharf of it and the wall; Stanching, quenching ocean of a motionable mind; […] - 2007, Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature:
  2. Able to be made as a motion.
    • If the fact of insurance coverage is omitted from the petition, will a mere statement that the claim will be unaffected by insovency of the estate suffice, or is this motionable? - 1962 December 24, Stanley B. Kent,...
    • Some attribute it to uninspiring motions—but a glance at them does not suggest that the good days (except for the excellent 'King and Country' motion harking back to historic Union debates when another Amplefordian was...
    • No that's not a motionable motion I will reframe it we must vote on whether to be implicit or explicit and if the latter then vote on the positive or negative modalities. - 2012, Christine Brooke-Rose, The Brooke-Rose...

Origin

From motion + -able.

Forms

more motionable most motionable