defeasible

1. 1.

   capable of being annulled or voided or terminated

   “a claim to an estate may be defeasible so long as the claimant is under 21 and unmarried”

   Antonymsindefeasible

Questions about defeasible

What does defeasible mean?

defeasible means "capable of being annulled or voided or terminated".

How many syllables are in defeasible?

defeasible has 5 syllables and divides as de-fe-a-si-ble under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of defeasible?

The recorded antonyms are indefeasible.

Is defeasible a common word?

defeasible 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.