spreadable

Capable of being spread.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being spread.
    • This warm margarine is much more spreadable than that lump of cold butter.
    • You can choose spreadable cheese or cheese blocks.
    • Salumi platters, at $8 a selection, built from the best examples she can find, including a spicy, spreadable salami called nduja. - 2009 September 2, Kim Severson, “For a Perfectionist Chef, a New Spot and a New...

Origin

Etymology tree English spread 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 spreadable From spread + -able.

Forms

more spreadable most spreadable

Derived

nonspreadable spreadably unspreadable

Noun

  1. Something, such as a food product, that can be spread.

Forms

spreadables