scissile
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 8
/ˈsɪs.ɪl/
Definition of scissile
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Readily cut or split.
“The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of some of these causes following, which we will enumerate without applying them, because that would be too long.”
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adj
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Readily cut or split.
“The differences of impressible and not impressible; figurable and not figurable; mouldable and not mouldable; scissile and not scissile; and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practise; but they are all but the effects of some of these causes following, which we will enumerate without applying them, because that would be too long.”
- Easily broken.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin scissilis, from scindere, scissum (“to cut, to split”). Compare French scissile. See schism, scissors.
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