Adjective: addressable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more addressable |
| Superlative | most addressable |
Sample Sentences
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"Despite the prevailing external forces, we remain confident in our ability to profitably grow the business in our addressable markets," the company said. [2023 January 25, “Network News: Keltbray receives £33 million credit facility platform”, in RAIL, number 975, page 11:]
Adjectives inflected like addressable
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. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Old French a-
7. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
8. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
9. Proto-Italic *dis-
10. Latin dīs-
11. Latin rēctus
12. Latin dīrēctus
13. Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.
14. Latin -iāre
15. Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre
16. Old French drecier
17. Old French adrecierbor.
18. Middle English adressen
19. English address
20. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
21. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
22. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
23. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
24. Latin -bilis
25. Latin -ābilis
26. Old French -ablebor.
27. Middle English -able
28. English -able
29. English addressable
30. From address + -able.