objectable

== English == === Etymology === From object +‎ -able. === Adjective === objectable (comparative more objectable, superlative most objectable) (rare, possibly archaic) Capable of being put forward as an objection. 1656, Discourse of Artificial Handsomeness, attributed to Jeremy Taylor, page 145 (quoted in Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language and The Century Dictionary): It is as objectable against all those things which either native beauty or art affords. (rare) Capable of being made into or treated as an object (especially by a computer program or programming language). Misconstruction of objectionable. === Further reading === “objectable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.