English edit

Etymology edit

hold +‎ -able

Adjective edit

holdable (comparative more holdable, superlative most holdable)

  1. That may be held.
    • 2017, Paul Kockelman, The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, page 113:
      Bones and stones, if you can forgive this vulgar formulation, are both holdable and beholdable.