separable
adjective/ˈsepərəbl/
/ˈsepərəbl/
Word Family
- separate adjective verb
- separated adjective
- separately adverb
- separation noun
- separable adjective (≠ inseparable)
- separable (from something) that can be separated from something, or considered separately
- The moral question is not entirely separable from the financial one.
- Good and evil are not always easily separable categories.
- The influences of home and school are not easily separable.
- The two things were never identical, but never separable from each other.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- easily
- readily
- completely
- …
- from
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- (grammar) (of a phrasal verb) that can be used with the object going either between the verb and the particle or after the particle
- The phrasal verb ‘tear up’ is separable because you can say ‘She tore the letter up’ or ‘She tore up the letter’.
opposite inseparable
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin separabilis, from separare ‘disjoin, divide’, from se- ‘apart’ + parare ‘prepare’.
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