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Able to form degrees or grades examples
(linguistics, of a word or phrase) Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning. quotations examples
Hot and cold are gradable antonyms.
2007, James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith, Semantics: A Coursebook
steep, but still able to be climbed by a motor vehicle examples
plural gradables
(linguistics) A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something. examples