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captionable en · ADJ

Etymology

From caption + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable of being captioned.
    • You get forty captionable full-screen pictures on disk (samples shown here). Half of the pictures are automatically animated as soon as you put them on the screen. Choose from a dozen caption typestyles to give your messages variety. 1987, InCider, volume 5, page 134:
    • Since photographs exist without captions but not the reverse – namely, a caption without a photograph – whatever image is considered photographable leads to what is captionable. 2013, Ian Richard Netton, Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land and Voyage, page 131: