discardable
- adjective
- /dɪsˈkɑrdəbl/
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desechable
- The recontextualization of raw "manuscript" art pages reveals the process that creates the powerful illusions of comics and the inversion of the perception of comics as discardable and cheap pop culture?
Examples
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You're not, and in a corporation's eyes, you're totally discardable, especially if they can get somebody cheaper to do the job, say somebody in India or China.
Blog text (17) -
This document is discardable because it contains outdated information.
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Perhaps we tend to view the eugenic chapters as an unfortunate and discardable appendage to a great work of very different character.
Academic text (1991) -
What I've gleaned from most of the comments here is that for occasional or discardable stuff, HF is OK.
Blog text (8) -
After the event, we found many discardable items that cluttered the area.
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She decided that the notes from last semester were discardable and threw them away.
Synonyms
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6.7
Able to be used up or given up because it is not important to the main goal
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6.6
Can be removed from a job or rejected by a person in charge
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7.1
Can be kept out of a legal case because it is not allowed as evidence
Can be dropped or given up when not needed
Can be left out without missing anything important
Can be refused or not accepted
Easy to remove or wash away
Antonyms
How Dispensable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Discardable comes from discard, which means 'to throw away', and the dis- part means 'away'. So something discardable in a list or in thought is easy to 'throw away' because it is unimportant or not needed.