extensible

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extēnsibilis, from extendō (“to extend”).

Adjective

extensible (comparative more extensible, superlative most extensible)

1. Capable of being extended.

   Synonyms: extendible, extendable

   Antonym: inextensible

Derived terms

• Extensible Markup Language
• extensibleness
• hyperextensible
• unextensible

Related terms

• extensibility

Translations

capable of being extended

• Bulgarian: разтегателен (raztegatelen)
• Catalan: extensible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可展開的 / 可展开的 (kězhǎnkāidì)

• Czech: rozšiřitelný
• French: extensible (fr)
• German: erweiterbar
• Greek: επεκτάσιμος (el) (epektásimos)
• Ido: extensebla (io)
• Italian: estensibile (it), prolungabile
• Latin: extēnsibilis
• Manx: yn-sheeyney
• Portuguese: extensível (pt), estendível (pt)
• Romanian: extensibil (ro)
• Spanish: extensible
• Turkish: uzatılabilir, uzayabilir

See also

• shortenable

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əks.tənˈsib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eks.tenˈsi.ble]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [eks.tenˈsib.ble]

Adjective

extensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural extensibles)

1. extensible

Further reading

• “extensible”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “extensible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “extensible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “extensible”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stɑ̃.sibl/

• Audio:

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Adjective

extensible (plural extensibles)

1. extensible
2. elastic; tensile

Further reading

• “extensible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɡstenˈsible/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ẽnˈsi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: ex‧ten‧si‧ble

Adjective

extensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural extensibles)

1. extensible

Derived terms

• alicates extensibles
• extensibilidad

Related terms

• extender

Noun

extensible m (plural extensibles)

1. (Twitch-speak) donothon, subathon (stream whose duration is extended every time the streamer receives a donation or subscription)

Further reading

• “extensible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026