boreable

English

Alternative forms

• borable

Etymology

From bore +‎ -able.

Adjective

boreable (comparative more boreable, superlative most boreable)

1. Capable of being bored or drilled into.
   • 1967, Eric Reeves Braithwaite, Lubrication and lubricants, page 409:

     One commercially available form of this type of bearing has a boreable 0.010 in.-thick lining of acetal copolymer, while another form has a thinner, 0.004 in.-thick, lining of the homopolymer.

2. Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.
   • 1948, Henry Hatfield, The Inventor and His World, page 32:

     Some factory workers are intolerably bored by monotonous tasks; others prefer them. The boreable, on the other hand, develop on occasion the most furious initiative in their efforts to escape boredom.