abandonable

Okay to quit

Abandonable describes something that can be given up, left behind, or relinquished.

The word appears mainly in legal and contractual contexts, where certain rights, claims, or properties may be designated as abandonable under specific conditions: The lease specified which fixtures were abandonable by the tenant.

In casual use, it suggests something not worth holding onto.

relinquishable

surrenderable

Able to be forfeited

  • cedeFormally surrender possession
  • yieldProduce or relinquish
  • waiveVoluntarily give up entitlement

renounce · forfeit · quitclaim · disclaim · abdicate · vacate · release · divest · transferable · assignable

disposable

throwaway

Designed for discard

discardable · temporary · ephemeral · recyclable · biodegradable · nonessential · superfluous · surplus · redundant · obsolete

forsakable

betrayable

Susceptible to disloyalty

marooned · stranded · ditchable · droppable · dumpable · walkaway · left-behind

negligible

trivial

Lacking significance or weight

peripheral · petty · trifling · irrelevant · secondary · incidental · marginal · immaterial · ignorable · dismissible

Opposites
dispensability

abandonableindispensable

Utterly required, irreplaceable

essential · irreplaceable · necessary · vital · crucial

commitment/obligation

abandonableinalienable

Incapable of being surrendered

inescapable · binding · obligatory · irrevocable · mandatory

Family

abandon, abandoned, abandonment, abandons, abandoning, abandoner

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G