hangable

Fit for hooks

Hangable describes something suitable for hanging on a wall or hook: The frame comes with hangable hardware already attached.

It also applies to offenses or persons once subject to execution by hanging: Horse theft was a hangable crime in the Old West.

display

frame

Supporting outer structure

tapestry · photograph · picture · poster · print · gallery · exhibition · hook · wire · mounting

execution

gallows

Execution hanging apparatus

  • nooseLoop that constricts
  • scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
  • gibbetExecution display structure

rope · trapdoor · drop · executioner · hangman · condemned · lynching · judicial · hood · trapdoor

morbid

macabre

Disturbing, death-obsessed

sinister · ominous · creepy · chilling · foreboding · deathly · grim · dark · mournful · haunting

Opposites
mounting method

hangablefreestanding

Not attached to anything

self-supporting · tabletop · leaning · mountable · laid flat

capital punishment eligibility

hangablepardonable

Warranting forgiveness

exculpable · forgivable · minor · petty · misdemeanor

punishment/execution method

hangablepardonable

Warranting forgiveness

exempt · innocent · acquitted · immune · protected

Family

hang, hanging, hanger, hangs, hanged, hangers, overhanging, hanger-on, overhung

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G