Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1913, from maneuver + -able.
Wiktionary
a. (context often in combination English) Able to be maneuvered alt. (context often in combination English) Able to be maneuvered
WordNet
adj. capable of maneuvering or changing position; "a highly maneuverable ship" [syn: manoeuvrable]
Usage examples of "maneuverable".
Because e-mail communication is asynchronous, the rate at which you converse is maneuverable.
The Migs were faster, more maneuverable, but the Tomcat made up for that in sheer power and endurance.
She could reach an unprecedented four hundred miles per hour in level flight, easily carried a total of eight Browning machine guns, and was so maneuverable that she could outdive and outclimb any other British aerocraft.
The Specials might be faster, but her hoverboard was more maneuverable.
Your garrison is cramped in the small courtyards, and your men not easily maneuverable.
Then it was that three small, fast, maneuverable feluccas bore down upon them, the bow-chasers firing long before they had achieved even maximum range.
There are ten excellent quinqueremes in the boat sheds attached to the Cibotus Harbor, all designed to carry plenty of artillery, all endowed with the best oaken rams, and all highly maneuverable.
Its blocky, armored chassis was very unprepossessing, but it was a bit more maneuverable than the Sandcat on the mountain road.
At the same time, I launch a spread of radar decoys, missiles which immediately deploy maneuverable ballute targets, each of which, though only a few meters across, displays radar cross-sections similar to my own.
They turned on their foes, trying to ram, but the Gorm and their escorting Orion battlecruisers were too maneuverable.
Though faster and more maneuverable, the Series 95 possessed scarcely a tenth of a battler's mass, and the fusion bolt seared through armor and internal circuitries like a high-velocity bullet through a structure made of pasteboard cards.
Lunk's APC, slower and far less maneuverable than the Cyclones, provided the best target, and the Invid were soon concentrating their bursts against it.
He had to keep reminding himself that his ship was more maneuverable, but when outnumbered three to one that wasn't the bee's knees.
Hiro and Da5id and the rest of them began to switch away from the enormous, bizarre vehicles they had favored at first -- Victorian houses on tank treads, rolling ocean liners, mile-wide crystalline spheres, flaming chariots drawn by dragons -- in favor of small maneuverable vehicles.
The drogue chute had likely been torn instantly away, but it had at least slowed the ship down to make it more maneuverable.