actionable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ac=tion=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

actionable, a. [Cf. LL. actionabilis. See Action.].

 That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

actionable, adj. giving cause for legal action.

Derivative

actionably adv.

THESAURUS

actionable

against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, applicable, authorized, black-market, bootleg, causidical, chargeable, competent, constitutional, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, felonious, flawed, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, irregular, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, kosher, lawful, lawless, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, licit, litigable, litigant, litigatory, litigious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, rightful, sanctioned, statutory, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, unlawful, unofficial, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted, valid, within the law, wrongful

ROGET THESAURUS

actionable

Illegality

N illegality, lawlessness, illicitness, breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law, disobedience, unconformity, arbitrariness, antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry, mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law, coup d'etat, le droit du plus fort, argumentum baculinum, illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister, trover and conversion, smuggling, poaching, simony, outlaw, bad man, v, offend against the law, violate the law, infringe the law, break the law, set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute, ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands, smuggle, run, poach, illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, not allowed, prohibited, illicit, contraband, actionable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized, informal, unofficial, injudicial, extrajudicial, lawless, arbitrary, despotic, despotical, corrupt, summary, irresponsible, unanswerable, unaccountable, expired, invalid, unchartered, unconstitutional, null and void, a dead letter, lawless, unregulated, illegally, with a high hand, in violation of law.