solvable

adj

1. Capable of being solved.

   “a solvable problem”

   “1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, “De homine,” Chapter 2, p. 56, Intellective Memory, which I call an act of the intellective faculty because it is wrought by it, though I do not inquire how or where, because it is not solvible:”

   “Questions of this Nature may be easily solvable in the simple Cases.”

   “Would Mr. Farfrae stay in Casterbridge despite his words and her father’s dismissal? His occult breathings to her might be solvable by his course in that respect.”

2. Capable of being solved.
3. Capable of being solved.
4. Capable of being solved.
5. Capable of being solved.
6. (obsolete)Capable of being dissolved or liquefied.

   “1664, John Chandler (translator), Van Helmont’s Works, London: Lodowick Lloyd, A Treatise of Fevers, Chapter 8, p. 971, […] they administer Pearles, and Corrals being beaten to dust or dissolved in distilled vinegar, or the juice of limons, and again dryed, and solvable in any potable liquour:”

7. (obsolete)Able to pay one's debts.

   “[…] although imprisonment was imposed by law on persons not solvable, yet officers were unwilling to cast them into goale,”

   “The Government is solvable in case of Loss, whereas private Men often fail;”

8. (obsolete, rare)Capable of being paid and discharged.

   “solvable obligations”