beatable

adjective

beat·​able ˈbē-tə-bəl 

: able to be defeated or overcome

If the NFL is going to send the Browns on the road to start a season for the first time in 12 years, it would be difficult to find a more beatable opponent than Tampa Bay.

—Tony Grossi, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8 Sept. 2010

If immunotherapy fulfills its promise, some cancers may become as beatable as a bad flu.

—Geoffrey Cowley et al., Newsweek, 1 Nov. 1993

Word History

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for beatable

• depletable
• repeatable
• unbeatable
• eatable
• treatable