terminable

Able to be terminated.

Adjective

  1. Able to be terminated.
    • Is the contract rescindable? — Yes, it's terminable at any time.
    • This agreement was scheduled to the N.B.R. Act of 1908, and was terminable by either side at the expiration of ten years from the opening of the line. [the line was never built] - 1951 April, “The Why and the Wherefore:...
  2. Having an ending; finite.

Origin

From Middle English terminable (“resolvable”), from Anglo-Norman and Middle French terminable and their etymon Latin terminābilis. By surface analysis, termine + -able.

Antonyms

interminable

Related

terminate

Derived

conterminable terminableness