governable

1. 1.

   capable of being controlled

   Synonymscontrollable

   Similarmanageable

Questions about governable

What does governable mean?

governable means "capable of being controlled".

How many syllables are in governable?

governable has 4 syllables: go-ver-na-ble. The stress falls on "ver".

What is another word for governable?

Close synonyms include controllable. 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.

Is governable a common word?

governable 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.