abatable

8.4

Possible to reduce or stop a problem

adjective
/əˈbeɪtəbl/

Formal

: reducible

The tax on property is abatable if certain conditions are met.

Examples

Many nuisances are abatable through legal action.
The costs of the project were found to be abatable by budget cuts.
From the attempt to maintain the sanctity of rights in property against social encroachment came a de facto, but not de jure, damage remedy for injuries to rights in land otherwise abatable by injunction.

Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

stoppable

vsabatable

1 3.4

Can be made to end

can be reduced, lessened, or ended rather than only stopped

suppressible

vsabatable

1 6.8

Something you can stop by action such as medicine

is capable of being reduced or ended rather than only controlled

abolishable

vsabatable

6.7

Able to be removed or ended

can be reduced or lessened rather than necessarily removed entirely

abridgeable

vsabatable

Formal

7.5

Can be limited or taken away, especially rights

applies to general reduction, not only limits on rights

Antonyms

undiminishable

9.4

Cannot become smaller or weaker

Compounds

abatable nuisance

Jargon

8.2

A problem like loud noise that the law allows people to stop

Surface Forms

abatable positive

abatabler comparative

abatablest superlative

Morphology

abatable = abate (transparent) = abate + able

The word 'abatable' is transparently derived from 'abate' with the suffix '-able', indicating capability.

Etymology

The word abatable comes from abate, an old word that meant 'to beat down' and is like the English word beat. So, abatable means something that can be 'reduced' or 'ended'.