grievable

English

Etymology

From grieve +‎ -able.

Adjective

grievable (comparative more grievable, superlative most grievable)

1. (obsolete) Lamentable.
2. Able to be grieved; worthy of being grieved.
3. Forming a reasonable basis for a grievance or formal complaint.

Derived terms

• ungrievable
• grievability

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “grievable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)