| 单词 | forgivable |
| 释义 | forgivable (once / 11645 pages) adj Forgivable things can be condoned, excused, or understood. If you have 30 cousins, it's completely forgivable for you to forget whose birthday falls on which day. If your favorite teacher is funny, fair, and smart, you'll find her tendency to use terrible puns totally forgivable. And on a slick, snowy road, another driver will probably consider the gentle slide of your car into her car's bumper utterly forgivable. Forgivable comes from the verb forgive, which has an Old English root, forgiefan, "give, allow, or pardon." WORD FAMILYforgivable: forgivably, unforgivable+/forgive: forgave, forgivable, forgiven, forgiver, forgives, forgiving/forgiven: forgiveness/forgiveness: forgivenesses/forgiver: forgivers/forgiving: forgivingest, forgivingly, forgivingness, unforgiving/unforgivable: unforgivablest, unforgivably/unforgiving: unforgivingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe city of Keokuk also contributed a $200,000 forgivable loan. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) The funds are not grants but are structured as forgivable loans. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) Nonetheless, sending the curious scrambling to Google is forgivable. Economist(Nov 17, 2016) adj easily excused or forgiven Syn excusable, venial pardonable admitting of being pardoned |
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