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Definition of "superable" [su•per•a•ble]

  • Possible to overcome; surmountable: superable problems. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "superable" in a sentence
  • "Tn-. superable obstacles having arisen against the union sin CHARLES GRANDISON."
  • "All cultivation requires watchfulness and additional precautions, either more or less: you must not, for the sake of a few superable difficulties, resign the otherwise unattainable refinement effected by poetry."
  • "But, were I to allow, that the obstacle in question, is as great, as you regard it -- nevertheless will it not increase with the lapse of years, and become less superable the longer the work of abolition is postponed?"