WASHABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does washable mean? 

• WASHABLE (adjective)
  The adjective WASHABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being washed without injury

  Familiarity information: WASHABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WASHABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being washed without injury

Context example:

acrylic blankets are both warm and washable

Similar:

drip-dry; wash-and-wear (treated so as to be easily or quickly washed and dried and requiring little or no ironing)

Antonym:

nonwashable (not washable)

Derivation:

wash (clean with some chemical process)

wash (cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water)

wash (be capable of being washed)

 Context examples 

The Cambridge researchers, working in collaboration with colleagues at Jiangnan University in China, have shown how graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – and other related materials can be directly incorporated into fabrics to produce charge storage elements such as capacitors, paving the way to textile-based power supplies which are washable, flexible and comfortable to wear.

(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)