removable

/rəˈmuvəbəl/

/rəˈmuvəbəl/

Removable is an adjective used to describe something that can be taken away. A temporary tattoo is easily removable, but a real tattoo isn't.

Anything that can be taken away, taken off, or gotten rid of can be described with the adjective removable. The CEO of a company is removable, because she can be fired by the company's board of directors. Your clothes are removable, since you can take them off whenever you choose to. (Well, maybe not whenever.) Removable implies something that is ultimately impermanent or temporary.

Definitions of removable

1. adjective

   capable of being removed or taken away or dismissed
   “a removable cord”

   “removable partitions”

   synonyms:

   dismissible

   subject to dismissal

   extractable, extractible

   capable of being extracted

   antonyms:

   irremovable

   incapable of being removed or away or dismiss

   tenured

   appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime
2. adjective

   able to be obliterated completely
   synonyms: obliterable

   eradicable

   able to be eradicated or rooted out