importable

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French importable.

Adjective

importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)

1. (obsolete) Insupportable, unbearable.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […]

Etymology 2

From import +‎ -able.

Adjective

importable (comparative more importable, superlative most importable)

1. Capable of being imported.

Translations

able to be imported

• Greek: εισαγώγιμος (el) (eisagógimos)
• Manx: so-chionnaghey stiagh

Noun

importable (plural importables)

1. Something that can be imported.
   • 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN)‎^[1]:

     Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.

Anagrams

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French

Adjective

importable (plural importables)

1. importable

Further reading

• “importable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.