governable
adjEtymology From govern + -able.
1
Capable of being governed or subjected to authority; amenable to law or rule.
- Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 397:
- Derived terms
- governably
- Related terms
- governability, governableness