blowable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of being blown or blown away; that can be subjected to blowing.
adj
That can cease to function when overloaded.
Example Sentences
- "The molten glass has to be the correct viscosity to be blowable."
- "The gale force wind blew every blowable object to the north, including things I didn't even know were blowable, like the roof."
- "Moreover, if resins should be eventually produced in a form in which they are "blowable," may we not find then that their properties are almost exactly like those of glass —and particularly in regard to brittleness?"
- "Give them time to get the gum chewed and blowable ."
- "Engineers are considering using the blowable insulation to rehabilitate residential buildings in Chicago under an Argonne partnership with Bethel New Life, a Chicago community economic initiative."
- "Initial flooding will be accomplished via linear irrigation configurations to provide maximum coverage of the blowable surface."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English blowable From blow + -able.
Inflected Forms
more blowable (comparative)
most blowable (superlative)