Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to omit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being omitted; not needed; worthy of omission.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being omitted; that may be omitted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Able to beomitted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being left out
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And we know that that is omissible in similar noun phrases:
There’s no way this sentence is wrong « Motivated Grammar 2008
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And we know that that is omissible in similar noun phrases:
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In the way of is omissible, in the examples, therefore can't really be said to 'govern' anything.
On hedging DC 2009
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To resolve the issue, we have to rely on syntactic criteria, and if a string is omissible as this one is it can hardly be called integrated.
On who(m)ever DC 2008
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Nevertheless it is not quite omissible in such a history as this, or in any history of French literature.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Some excellent songs (The Man In The Long Black Coat, Most Of The Time), some very good (Political World, What Good Am I?) and some omissible ones (Disease Of Conceit, Where Teardrops Fall).
Oh Mercy 1989
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Mandane's magnificent scarf put on for the first time) is not quite omissible.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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