mov·able
ˈmü-və-bəl 
variants
or moveable
1
: capable of being moved
2
: changing date from year to year
movable holidays
variants
or moveable
: something (such as an article of furniture) that can be removed or displaced
Examples of movable in a Sentence
Adjective
Thanksgiving is a movable holiday.
any furniture that is not movable will be covered with protective cloths by the painters
Noun
when painting a room, you should first cover or remove all of the movables
packed our movables into the van and headed off to our new home
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ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
Its movable limbs complicate the aerodynamics, and gases emitted from the wind turbines exceed 1,200 degrees and flow at nearly the speed of sound.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
For those who want to boss around inanimate objects verbally, a voice command would also get the movables moving.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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Adjective
Kuiper's previous delays have already eliminated any chance of Amazon meeting the FCC's deadline, but the time limit is movable, and the FCC has extended network authorization deadlines before.
—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025
Its movable limbs complicate the aerodynamics, and gases emitted from the wind turbines exceed 1,200 degrees and flow at nearly the speed of sound.
—Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
From a life science point of view, these animals resemble a liquid—much more so than other creatures such as humans—because of their movable (and sometimes missing) collarbone.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
For those who want to boss around inanimate objects verbally, a voice command would also get the movables moving.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
See All Example Sentences for movable
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“Movable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movable. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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movable
1 of 2 adjective
mov·able
variants
or moveable
1
: capable of being moved : not fixed
2
: changing date from year to year
Thanksgiving is a movable holiday
movable
2 of 2 noun
variants
or moveable
: a piece of property (as an article of furniture) that can be moved
Legal Definition
movable
2 of 2 noun
variants
or moveable
: an item of movable property
also
: a right or interest (as a chattel mortgage) in an item of movable property
bonds and annuities are incorporeal movables
—often used in pl.
compare immovable
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