dissociable

From Latin dissociābilis, from dissociare: compare English dissociable. See dissociate.

dissociable (comparative more dissociable, superlative most dissociable)

1. Able to be dissociated, divided or separated.
2. Not well associated or assorted; incongruous.
   • 1711 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SATURDAY, March 3, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 3; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 96:

     They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner.

     The spelling has been modernized.

3. Having a tendency to dissolve social connections; unsuited to society; unsociable.

By surface analysis, dissocier +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /di.sɔ.sjabl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

dissociable (plural dissociables)

1. dissociable

   Antonym: indissociable

• “dissociable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.