vanquishable

Able to defeat

Vanquishable means capable of being defeated or overcome.

The word appears mainly in contexts where someone asserts that an enemy, obstacle, or problem can in fact be conquered: The disease is vanquishable if we act now.

The opposite, unvanquishable, is rarer still.

defeatable

beatable

Capable of being defeated

crushable · overpowerable · assailable · surmountable · masterable · winnable · breakable · fallible · exposed · vulnerable

surmountable

achievable

Able to be accomplished

doable · solvable · resolvable · navigable · crossable · passable · climbable · clearable · negotiable · handleable

controllable

tameable

Able to be subdued

quellable · pacifiable · governable · tractable · docile · compliant · amenable · submissive · yielding · pliable

Opposites
defeatability

vanquishableinvincible

Incapable of being defeated

unvanquishable · unconquerable · indomitable · unbeatable · insurmountable

Family

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