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What is the adjective for defeasible?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb defeat which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

defeasible
  1. (logic) Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ineffective, ineffectual, useless, futile, fruitless, unproductive, vain, worthless, unsuccessful, pointless, unavailing, inefficacious, unprofitable, profitless, abortive, bootless, empty, inadequate, idle, hopeless, otiose, poor, barren, failed, inefficient, nugatory, purposeless, weak, inferior, feeble, pathetic, inept, impotent, incompetent, feckless, lame, counterproductive, paltry, inutile, inexpedient, unfruitful, powerless, inoperative, null, incapable, hamstrung, unfructuous, limited, anticlimactic, unfit … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Their value and purpose would be undermined if the security was always defeasible on a transfer of his reversion by the reversioner.”
      “Each of these would-be reasons is defeasible and has been more than adequately seen off in argument during recent weeks.”
      “The judge gave two examples of fixed charges over assets which are defeasible at the will of the chargor.”
defeasanced
  1. (law) Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.
defeated
  1. Subjugated, beaten, overcome.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. beaten, overcome, conquered, routed, bested, trounced, thwarted, vanquished, overwhelmed, crushed, overpowered, licked, thrashed, worsted, subjugated, baulked, balked, checkmated, whitewashed, bettered, foiled, outdone, humbled, frustrated, surmounted, unsuccessful, losing, subdued, overthrown, whipped, mastered, failed, baffled, surpassed, improved upon, dashed, stymied, luckless, disappointed, botched, hapless, cowed, quashed, clobbered, circumvented … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “One afternoon in 1920, a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.”
defeatable
  1. (rare) Capable of being defeated.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. vincible, susceptible, exposed, defenceless, defenseless, unprotected, unguarded, assailable, unsafe, weak, naked, accessible, attackable, liable, sensitive, ready, sucker, tender, conquerable, pregnable, wide open, on the line, sitting duck, out on a limb, on the spot, thin-skinned … more
defeatless
  1. Without defeat.
defeating
  1. present participle of defeat
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, beating, besting, winning against, prevailing over, surmounting, triumphing over, dispatching, licking, taking, conquering, getting around, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, skunking, stopping, subduing, trimming, upending, routing, overthrowing, worsting, crushing, overwhelming, overpowering, vanquishing, trouncing, quelling, subjugating, demolishing, stuffing, tanking, clobbering, busting, quashing, whipping, thrashing, hammering, slaughtering, pulverizing, walloping, flogging, trashing, crucifying, annihilating, totaling, pasting, murdering … more
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