forgivable
adjEtymology From forgive + -able. Partially displaced non-native Middle English pardonable (“capable of being pardoned, forgivable”) from Old French pardonable (“forgivable”).
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Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
- It's even forgivable here when the band sometimes sounds as though they've phoned in the Stonesy swagger, because when they're on, the Hellacopters sound like the best garage rock/bar band in the world.2004, CMJ New Music Report, number 872, page 6:
- In retrospect, the misunderstanding about the plan was forgivable […]2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- forgivableness, forgivably