Adjective: spirable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more spirable |
| Superlative | most spirable |
Sample Sentences
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spirable matter
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...but the spirable odor & pestilent steame ascending from it, put him out of his bias of congruity... [1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe:]
Adjectives inflected like spirable
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
Latin spirabilis.