objectable

Capable of being put forward as an objection.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being put forward as an objection.
    • It is as objectable against all those things which either native beauty or art affords. - 1656, Discourse of Artificial Handsomeness, attributed to Jeremy Taylor, page 145 (quoted in Johnson's A Dictionary of the...
    • Whether any thing truly objectable against any Bishop or Minister of England (as scandalously weak, wicked and unworthy) may not with as much more truth be objected against their severest enemies. - 1659, John Gauden,...
    • The Commission granted to Kidd had nothing in it objectable in point of Law, [...] - 1735, History of England, volume 3, page 205:
  2. Capable of being made into or treated as an object (especially by a computer program or programming language).
    • Here we use the position of each region inside the image, its size, structure and adjacency relations to the other prominent regions or to the background. First we apply a so-called preprocessing step, in which we...
  3. Misconstruction of objectionable.
    • Nothing surely which they did, was more objectable than their Proceedings against Magdalen College[.] - 1701, The Whigs. Thirty Two Queries, and as Many of the Tories in Answer to Them. With a Speech Made at the General...

Origin

From object + -able.

Forms

more objectable most objectable