scissile

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: scis=sile

CIDE DICTIONARY

scissile, a. [L. scissilis, fr. scindere, scissum, to cut, to split: cf. F. scissile. See Schism.].

 Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible.  Arbuthnot.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scissile, adj. able to be cut or divided.

Etymology

L scissilis f. scindere sciss- cut

THESAURUS

scissile

alienable, breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crushable, delicate, dissoluble, dissolvable, divisible, fissile, fissionable, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, lacerable, separable, severable, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery, vulnerable

ROGET THESAURUS

scissile

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.