|

removable

Removable is an adjective used to describe something that can be taken away. A temporary tattoo is removable, but a real tattoo isn't.

Anything that can be taken away, taken off, or gotten rid of can be described with the adjective removable. The CEO of a company is removable, because she can be fired by the company's board of directors. Your clothes are removable, since you can take them off whenever you choose to. (Well, maybe not whenever.) Removable implies something that is ultimately impermanent or temporary.

DEFINITIONS OF: removable

1

adj capable of being removed or taken away or dismissed

“a removable cord”
removable partitions”
Synonyms
dismissible
subject to dismissal
extractable, extractible
capable of being extracted
Antonyms:
irremovable
incapable of being removed or away or dismiss
tenured
appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime
show more antonyms...

adj able to be obliterated completely

Synonyms:
obliterable
eradicable
able to be eradicated or rooted out
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES