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  • adjective Capable of being fulfilled.

Etymologies

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fulfill +‎ -able

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Examples

  • How fortunate to have a fantasy so easily fulfillable.

    Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse. LuLu 2008

  • You might assume that this is not a fulfillable yearning in 21st-century New York, but then you haven't met Louis 'new roommate, who himself seems to inhabit an alternate dimension that is not exactly that place and time.

    News & Politics 2010

  • It compels us to think in individual terms, and, by implication, to concede others 'perfect right to their own visions, fulfillable or not.

    Eternity Road The Curmudgeon Emeritus 2010

  • We have already identified one: The promise of security against economic hardship is highly attractive, so long as one can convince oneself that it is fulfillable and won’t turn the state into an all-powerful master.

    A Conspectus of Today’s Democratic Party 2008

  • We have already identified one: The promise of security against economic hardship is highly attractive, so long as one can convince oneself that it is fulfillable and won’t turn the state into an all-powerful master.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • The bottle, once a flagon of fulfillable fantasy, once the repository of ambition and purpose, was falling into the category of galloping mind-fuck-and a woman really didn't need more than one -perfect taco" in her life.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • The new year has arrived and so has everyone’s long lists of resolutions that might prove to be fulfillable – yet mostly unfulfillable.

    Archive 2006-01-01 e d b m 2006

  • The new year has arrived and so has everyone’s long lists of resolutions that might prove to be fulfillable – yet mostly unfulfillable.

    ED&BM's New Years Fullfillable and/or Unfulfillable Wishes e d b m 2006

  • Napier said: "When people are dying it is not politics, it is a matter of life and death and about the promise of a better life and making that fulfillable.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

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