violable

9.9

Something someone can break, like a rule or promise

adjective
/ˈvaɪəbl/

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: violable

The rules of the game are violable, allowing players to adapt strategies as they see fit.

Examples

This contradiction, for Limon, points up his claim that literature's boundaries are highly violable, that literature is the "undisciplined discipline," "more vulnerable to invasion than science or the scientific profession" (4-5).

Academic text (1990)
Yet imagining this binary as violable is precisely what enables Nesbit to jettison the ideal of the innocent child that Rose identifies as a defining characteristic of children's literature.

Academic text (2001)
In a democracy, the rights of citizens are not violable and must be respected by the government.
The guidelines for the project are violable, which means team members can suggest changes when necessary.

Synonyms

breakable

vsviolable

5 1.3

Easy to damage or fall into pieces

is broader, applying to breakage or disregard in general rather than only fragile objects

Antonyms

inviolable

Formal

5 8.6

Too important or sacred to be broken

How Violable

vulnerable

581 4.0

exposed

1 3.4

violable

NSFW

9.9

protected

1 2.0

inviolable

Formal

5 8.6

Surface Forms

violable positive

Morphology

violable = violate (transparent) = violate + able

The adjective is formed by adding the productive English suffix '-able' to the verb 'violate', yielding the straightforward meaning 'able to be violated'.

Etymology

Violable is related to violate and violent and comes from a Latin root meaning 'force' or 'do harm'. So, violable means something that can be 'broken' or 'violated', not fully protected.