Adjective: throwable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more throwable |
| Superlative | most throwable |
Sample Sentences
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For an object to be throwable, it must be directly or indirectly derived from the Throwable class. [1997, Babak Sadr, Grady Booch, Unified objects: object-oriented programming using C++:]
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In general, each function may specify a list of throwable objects […] [2001, Alan Burns, Andrew J Wellings, Real-time systems and programming languages:]
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[…] if you need to make certain symbols visible externally for debugging purposes or for catching exceptions for throwable entities within a library. [2006, William Von Hagen, The definitive guide to GCC:]
Adjectives inflected like throwable
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 throw
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
5. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
6. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
7. Latin -bilis
8. Latin -ābilis
9. Old French -ablebor.
10. Middle English -able
11. English -able
12. English throwable
13. From throw + -able.