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Definition of Shakable
1. Adjective. Capable of being weakened. "The crisis proved his confidence was shakable"
Definition of Shakable
1. Adjective. Able to be shaken. ¹
2. Adjective. Designed to be shaken. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shakable
1. shake [adj] - See also: shake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shakable
Literary usage of Shakable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1901)
"... nor in electrodynamics the five or six fundamental experiments of Ampère, that
have established in our minds the un-. shakable conviction of the truth ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... guns and six colours, remain un- the presence of the enemy, whom shakable,
having thousands of they pursued over the crest of corpses under their feet. ..."
3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1919)
"... but for that incessant rumbling in yet still patient and cheerful, with that
un- the southeast and the occasional honking shakable Flemish good cheer. ..."
4. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1915)
"... but for that incessant rumbling in yet still patient and cheerful, with that
un- the southeast and the occasional honking shakable Flemish good cheer. ..."
5. The Larger Liberalism by Edward Bernard Benjamin (1918)
"shakable confidence in the future of things; our allies will set about to repair
the destruction of war in a spirit of the greatest enthusiasm. ..."
6. A Japanese Interior by Alice Mabel Bacon (1893)
"It was terrible to hear the earthquake as it traveled diagonally across the house
from corner to corner, shaking everything shakable, including walls and ..."
7. A Japanese Interior by Alice Mabel Bacon (1893)
"It was terrible to hear the earthquake as it traveled diagonally across the house
from corner to corner, shaking everything shakable, including walls and ..."
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