Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being shaped.
  • Having a proper shape or form; shapely.
  • Also shapeable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective That may be shaped.
  • adjective rare Shapely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Capable of being shaped.

Etymologies

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shape +‎ -able

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Examples

  • I just found out that I have a physical abnormality, aside from my short arms, bendable/shapable nose, and eyebrows that would grow all the way down to my eyelids if they had their way.

    My Thumbs Were Made For Hitchhiking 2009

  • Besides this, I arrived at an unexpected perfection in my earthenware, and contrived well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely easier and better, because I made things round and shapable which before were filthy things indeed to look on.

    Robinson Crusoe 1895

  • Besides this, I arrived at an unexpected perfection in my earthenware, and contrived well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely easier and better, because I made things round and shapable which before were filthy things indeed to look on.

    Robinson Crusoe Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1895

  • By selling individual, shapable plots of land, the goal was to build a colony in a public space.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Besides this, I arriv'd at an unexpected Perfection in my Earthen Ware, and contriv'd well enough to make them with a Wheel, which I found infinitely easyer and better; because I made things round and shapable, which before were filthy things indeed to look on.

    The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719

  • Besides this, I arrived at an unexpected perfection in my earthen-ware, and contrived well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely easier and better; because I made things round and shapable, which before were filthy things indeed to look on.

    The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes Daniel Defoe 1696

  • Xataface is a framework for building data-driven applications with MySQL and PHP. is a flexible and shapable skin that sits on top of MySQL, making it accessible to every-day users.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

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