Adjective: painable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more painable |
| Superlative | most painable |
Sample Sentences
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The manacles of Astyages were not […] the less weighty and paynable for being composed of gold or silver. [1649, John Evelyn, Of Liberty and Servitude:]
Adjectives inflected like painable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From pain + -able. Compare French pénible. See: French Adjectives '
pénible'.