losable

1 5.4

An item that you may leave somewhere and not find again

adjective
/ˈloʊzəbl/

: perdible

Without my ADD meds, I'm even more of a mess, but due to federal drug legislation, I can't just get refills (to say nothing of OTC access); I need to go to the doctor and get one (or, depending on the doctor, several carefully dated and eminently losable) prescription(s) each time.

I made you house after house after house, but each time it was too small, too losable, too easily destroyed.

Examples

Every time I go out, I lose my keys; they are so losable that I should attach them to my bag.
I made you house after house after house, but each time it was too small, too losable, too easily destroyed.

Jack Edwards
And more losable.

Blog text (7)
My spare is held with rubber bands along my tripod's center column, since a cable release is often the "most losable" accessory.

Academic text (1999)
The instructions for assembling the furniture are losable, so it's a good idea to keep them in a safe place.
In our chaotic kitchen, the remote control is losable among all the clutter.

Antonyms

secure

443 3.2

Protected from danger or from people trying to break in

findable

1 2.8

Easy to discover when you search for it

How Easy

misplaced

58 2.8

losable

1 5.4

safe

∞ 1.0

secure

443 3.2

Surface Forms

losable positive

Morphology

losable = lose (transparent) = lose + able

Direct and regular adjective formation from the verb 'lose' using the productive suffix '-able'; meaning 'able to be lost' is immediately inferable.

Etymology

Losable comes from the verb lose ('to no longer have') plus the ending -able ('can be'). So, something losable is 'can be lost', like breakable is 'can be broken', which is why we try to keep losable things like keys and wallets safe.