deal-withable

English

Alternative forms

  • dealwithable, deal-with-able

Etymology

From deal with +‎ -able.

Adjective

deal-withable (comparative more deal-withable, superlative most deal-withable)

  1. (informal) Able to be dealt with, handled, or overcome.
    • 1993 January 29, G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>, “RE:Salmonella Bake 93”, in bit.listserv.words-l‎[1] (Usenet):
      Trust me, my ego is very dealwithable (ugh-ugh-ugh) in person.
    • 2000, Jim Knipfel, Slackjaw‎[2], Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 171:
      That's it, I thought to myself, I can't live this way anymore. This has gone beyond the bounds of the deal-withable.
    • 2003 October 7, <anon2765@firedrake.org>, “RE:The apostrophe strikes again”, in alt.books.tom-holt‎[3] (Usenet):
      I know that isn't really a help, but it does I suppose make it more -- well, understandable, deal-withable, if one knows that this is the common experience […]
    • 2007 February 6, Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty‎[4], Penguin, →ISBN, page 18:
      Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations.
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