-ible

(Latin: a suffix; can be done, worthy of being, able to be, tending to, capacity for)


ignible
Capable of ignition; ignitable.
incognoscible
1. Unknowable; beyond cognizance.
2. Incapable of being perceived or known.
incompatible
1. Not able to exist in harmony or agreement; not going or getting along well together; incongruous, discordant, conflicting, antagonistic, mismatched.
2. Mutually intolerant; incapable of existing together in the same subject; contrary or opposed in character; discordant, incongruous, inconsistent.
3. The incapacity of cells or tissue from one individual to tolerate those of some other individual when an organic union of some kind is formed between them; especially, in grafting and transplantation, in the transfusion of blood, and in parasitism.

Being incompatible is when a man wants a divorce and his wife doesn’t; or when the husband loses his income and the wife her patability.

—Evan Esar

In Genesis (the first book in the Bible) it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.

—John Barrymore
incondensable, incondensible
1. Difficult or impossible to condense: "The judge presented an incondensable judicial opinion."
2. Not condensable; incapable of being made more dense or compact, or reduced to liquid form.
incorruptible
1. Incapable of being morally corrupted, especially incapable of being bribed or motivated by selfish or base interests.
2. Not subject to decomposition; incapable of being affected by decay or decomposition.
inflexible, inflexibility, inflexibleness
1. Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances: "An inflexible law."
2. Adhering firmly to a viewpoint or principle.
3. Firmly established and impossible to change: "An inflexible rule."
4. Rigid; stiff and bendable only with difficulty.
5. Incapable of being changed; unalterable.
6. Unyielding in purpose, principle, or temper; immovable.
intangibility
intangible
intangibly
invisible
irresistible
legible
1. Clear enough to be read; readable.
2. Capable of being easily understood or recognized.
passible
Capable of feeling, especially pain or suffering; susceptible to sensation.
producible
1. Capable of being produced, brought forward, or presented to the eye or mind; adducible; procurable, obtainable, available.
2. Fit to be produced or introduced; presentable.
3. That which can be produced or extended in length.
4. That which may be caused or brought about; capable of being brought into being, generated, or made.
reducible
That which can be reduced or capable of becoming smaller in size, number, extent, degree, or intensity, or something that can be made smaller in this way.

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