boreable

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

bore +‎ -able

Adjective

boreable (comparative more boreable, superlative most boreable)

  1. Capable of being bored or drilled into.
    • 1967, Eric Reeves Braithwaite, Lubrication and lubricants, page 409:
      One commercially available form of this type of bearing has a boreable 0.010 in.-thick lining of acetal copolymer, while another form has a thinner, 0.004 in.-thick, lining of the homopolymer.
  2. Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.
    • 1948, Henry Hatfield, The Inventor and His World, page 32:
      Some factory workers are intolerably bored by monotonous tasks; others prefer them. The boreable, on the other hand, develop on occasion the most furious initiative in their efforts to escape boredom.
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