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adoptable

[uh-dop-tuh-buhl]

a·dopt·a·ble

[uh-dop-tuh-buhl]
adjective
1.
capable of being adopted; suitable or eligible for adoption: an adoptable child; a resolution found to be adoptable.
noun
2.
a child who is considered suitable for adoption: fewer adoptables than in previous years.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

Origin:
1835–45; adopt + -able

a·dopt·a·bil·i·ty, noun
non·a·dopt·a·ble, adjective
un·a·dopt·a·ble, adjective
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adoptable

adjective
suitable or eligible for adoption; "a shortage of adoptable babies" [ant: unadoptable
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