Leavable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being left, or departed from.

    "They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […]"

  2. 2
    Capable of being left behind.

    "Hayleigh prodded her food with her knife. Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors? Well, obviously, not the chips. The chips would definitely be constituting the bulk of her leavable third."

  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to a problem where the gambler is free to stop playing at any time.

Example

More examples

"They liked hotels, though, mainly because they didn't feel obligated to them: eminently leavable, a hotel room made no demands and extorted no loyalty […]"

Etymology

From leave + -able.

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