rationable

Suitable for being rationed.

Adjective not comparable

  1. Suitable for being rationed.
    • Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat. - 2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys:

Origin

From ration + -able. Piecewise doublet of reasonable.

Adjective archaic

  1. Synonym of rational or reasonable.
    • Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action. - 1952 December, William...

    Synonyms: rational or reasonable

Origin

From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis. Doublet of reasonable.

Forms

more rationable most rationable

Related

rationability

Derived

rationably