stretchableadj.
/ˈstrɛtʃəb(ə)l/ Capable of being stretched.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > stretchable
stretchable1398
extensible1611
extensive1612
tensible1626
tensile1626
reaching1651
distendible1673
extendible1693
distractile1709
distensile1739
extensile1744
elastic1781
distensible1828
distensive1836
stretchy1854
stretching1897
two-way stretch1932
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > stretched > able to be stretched
stretchable1398
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxv. 135 Yf they [sc. fowl] haue longe neckes and strechable [Bodl. MS. streccheable: L. abile ad declinandum] they bynde theym as it were foldynge in pleyghtes whan they flee.
a1771 T. Smollett in T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia (1862) III. 388 Strenuous Siege; which, had..the Laws of Nature and the rigours of Arithmetic..been stretchable entities, might have succeeded better!
1889 A. James Diary 16 Nov. (1965) 56 She seems as large a joke as ever, an embodiment of the stretchable, a purely transatlantic and modern possibility.
1975 L. Blue To Heaven with Scribes & Pharisees iv. 39 Jewish cooking..inclines to casseroles and stews, which are infinitely stretchable.
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adj.1398