colourable

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colourable

/ˈkʌləɹəb(ə)l/ UK

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From colour + -able.

adjective colorable

not comparable, obsolete Colourful.
not comparable Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable. Doth the master make any bargaine, or dispatch that pleaseth not? it is immediately smothered and suppressed, soone after forging causes, and devising colourable excuses, to excuse the want of execution or answer.
archaic, not comparable, sometimes Deceptive; fake, misleading. Glauce, what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?
archaic, not comparable, sometimes In appearance only; not in reality what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned.
not comparable That can be coloured. This matter, however, is not itself coloured, but is only capable of exhibiting colours, by the addition of other matters : and hence we have ventured to call it the colourable, rather than the colouring parts of the plant, by which we merely indicate its property of becoming coloured, but not its a

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adj specious

Español	colorado

adj that can be coloured

Español	coloreable
Français	colorable, coloriable
Română	colorabil

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@misc{colourable_2026,
  title = {colourable},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/colourable},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}