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English
Etymology
From adjust + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
adjustable (comparative more adjustable, superlative most adjustable)
- capable of being adjusted
Derived terms
Translations
capable of being adjusted
- Bulgarian: нагласяем (naglasjaem), регулируем (bg) (reguliruem)
- Catalan: ajustable
- Czech: nastavitelný
- Dutch: aanpasbaar (nl), regelbaar (nl)
- Finnish: säädettävä
- French: ajustable (fr), réglable (fr)
- Galician: axustable (gl)
- German: einstellbar, justierbar, verstellbar (de)
- Icelandic: stillanlegur (is)
- Italian: modificabile (it), regolabile (it)
- Manx: so-chiartaghey
- Portuguese: ajustável (pt)
- Romanian: ajustabil (ro)
- Spanish: ajustable (es), regulable, graduable (es)
- Swedish: justerbar (sv), inställbar (sv), reglerbar
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Noun
adjustable (plural adjustables)
- Anything that can be adjusted.
1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:"He came in. He had a gun. He was crazy. You can see he was crazy; look what he did to Ricky. He thought Ricky was me. He wanted to steal my adjustables. Look."
Sonny smiled and tilted the steel case so Henry could look at the jumble of rusty ironmongery inside.