protractile

1. 1.

   able to be extended

   “protractile muscle”

   Synonymsprotractible

   Similarextensile

Questions about protractile

What does protractile mean?

protractile means "able to be extended".

How many syllables are in protractile?

protractile has 4 syllables: pro-trac-ti-le. The stress falls on "trac".

What is another word for protractile?

Close synonyms include protractible. 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 protractile a common word?

protractile 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.