able to be skipped, omitted, or passed over without loss; unimportant
Word origin
[1810–20; skip1 + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1810–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: duplex, dynamic, liberalism, technique, voodoo-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)
Examples of 'skippable' in a sentence
skippable
If an author hasn't made clear his thesis in the first 75 per cent of his text, he's probably skippable.