boreable

adj

Meaning

Capable of being bored or drilled into.
Capable of being bored, or made to lose interest in something.
Capable of being bored or drilled into.

Examples

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.
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.

Word Forms

more boreable most boreable borable

Etymology

From bore + -able.

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