defeasible
[dɪˈfiːzɪbəɫ]
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.
Example Sentences
- "The accounting charge for the non-callable debt is defeasible by an escrow."
- "Languages are acquired mainly through the exercise of defeasible inductive methods, based on experience of linguistic communication."
- "If you are unhappy with an article generated by Abstract Wikipedia, you will be able to: change the “abstract” content in Wikidata; change the algorithms that construct or render the article in Wikifunctions; or sever the connection between the article and Abstract Wikipedia, and edit the article the old-fashioned way in Wikipedia. The role of Wikilambda in all this is to make algorithms “defeasible”. Every part of every algorithm is there, and can be contested on the platform itself, even if that contestation may be culturally and politically constrained."
Etymology
Back-formation from defeasance + -ible, from Anglo-Norman defesaunce, Old French desfaisance, a deverbal noun from desfaire (“to undo”) (Modern French défaire), from des- (“un-, apart”) + fere, faire (“to do”) + -able, reflecting Latin dis- + facere + -ābilis. Near-doublet of defeatable.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: [dɪˈfiːzɪbəɫ]
Inflected Forms
more defeasible (comparative)
most defeasible (superlative)