Adjective: administrable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more administrable |
| Superlative | most administrable |
Sample Sentences
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Ideally such legislation should ensure horizontal equity between taxpayers and should provide clear and easily administrable rules. [1984, Rules for the Federal Tax Treatment of Fringe Benefits]
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It is very difficult to state a sensible and administrable principle of compensation - but then, it is always difficult to state sensible and administrable principles. [1989, The Public Interest]
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Active and open NGOs, operating in conjunction with the government under clear and easily administrable laws, are a vital component of a free and functional civil society. [1997, Jon Bennett, NGOs and Governments]
Adjectives inflected like administrable
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
1. Etymology tree
2. English administer
3. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
5. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
6. Latin -bilis
7. Latin -ābilis
8. Old French -ablebor.
9. Middle English -able
10. English -able
11. English administrable
12. From administer + -able.