expectable

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English

Etymology

From expect +‎ -able.

Adjective

expectable (comparative more expectable, superlative most expectable)

  1. Able to be expected.
    1. Able to be expected or anticipated; not unusual.
      Expectable losses are calculated into the final selling price.
    2. Able to be expected or considered due or required (of someone), reasonable to expect (someone to do, have, etc).
      • c. 1964, Donald R. Mergenhagen v. George R. Mergenhagen, case before the Supreme Court of New York, appellate division, fourth department, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Department, page 265:
        The jury could and did find that appellant's decision not to move was not a decision expectable of a reasonably prudent man to whom any backing vehicle means grave danger.
      • 1987, Geoffrey M. White, John Kirkpatrick, Person, Self, and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 91:
        An argument can be made that the Marquesan view of certain states as expectable of 'persons' follows from these being equally examples of a common type of process.
      • 2004, Raymond M. Scurfield, A Vietnam Trilogy, Vol. I: Veterans and Post Traumatic Stress, 1968, 1989, 2000, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:
        And that is the tragedy of the establishment of the diagnosis of PTSD. The presence of troubling war-related memories and associated negative reactions typically has much more to do with what is normal and expectable of almost anyone who has survived war  ...
      • 2008, Leonard Swidler, Paul Mojzes, The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul F. Knitter, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:
        Such issues finally turn on two counts; namely, what is most opposite to the human scene, and what is most properly worth, or—may we say— “expectable” of God.

Derived terms

Translations

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɡspeɡˈtable/
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: ex‧pec‧ta‧ble

Adjective

expectable m or f (masculine and feminine plural expectables)

  1. alternative spelling of espectable

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