compromisable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From compromise + -able.
Adjective
[edit]compromisable (comparative more compromisable, superlative most compromisable)
- Capable of being compromised or compromised upon.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, page 77:
- The conjectured past of Isabel took mysterious hold of his father; therefore, the idea of his father tyrannized over his imagination; and the possible future of Isabel, as so essentially though indirectly compromisable by whatever course of conduct his mother might hereafter ignorantly pursue with regard to himself, as henceforth, through Isabel, forever altered to her; these considerations brought his mother with blazing prominence before him.
- 1991 April 6, Chris Nealon, “Amnesty Pressured To Include Gay Prisoners”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
- Our rights are not compromisable.