purchasable

1. 1.

   capable of being corrupted

   “corruptible judges”

   “dishonest politicians”

   “a purchasable senator”

   “a venal police officer”

   Synonymscorruptiblebribabledishonestvenal

   Similarcorrupt
2. 2.

   available for purchase

   “purchasable goods”

   “many houses in the area are for sale”

   Synonymsfor sale

   Similaravailable

Questions about purchasable

What does purchasable mean?

purchasable means "capable of being corrupted". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purchasable?

purchasable has 4 syllables: pur-cha-sa-ble. The stress falls on "cha".

What is another word for purchasable?

Close synonyms include corruptible, bribable, dishonest, venal, for sale. 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 purchasable a common word?

purchasable 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.