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FORGIVABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forgivable mean?
• FORGIVABLE (adjective)
The adjective FORGIVABLE has 1 sense:
1. easily excused or forgiven
Familiarity information: FORGIVABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Easily excused or forgiven
Synonyms:
Context example:
a venial error
Similar:
pardonable (admitting of being pardoned)
Context examples
A very natural and forgivable mistake, Meg, but one that had better be remedied before you take to different ways, for children should draw you nearer than ever, not separate you, as if they were all yours, and John had nothing to do but support them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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