compressible

1. 1.

   capable of being compressed or made more compact

   “compressible packing materials”

   “a compressible box”

   Antonymsincompressible

   Similarcompressed
2. 2.

   capable of being easily compressed

   Synonymssqueezable

   Similarsoft

Questions about compressible

What does compressible mean?

compressible means "capable of being compressed or made more compact". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compressible?

compressible has 4 syllables: com-pres-si-ble. The stress falls on "pres".

What is another word for compressible?

Close synonyms include squeezable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of compressible?

The recorded antonyms are incompressible.

Is compressible a common word?

compressible is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.