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concealable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English conceal Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English concealable From conceal + -able.

Meanings

  1. Able to be concealed.
    • […] he denied the omniſciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable. 1646, Thomas Browne, “A Further Illustration of the Same”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 6:
    • A bag of sequins, a jewel, a balsam, a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property. 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative”, in Lectures and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, page 141:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most concealable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more concealable Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unconcealable · inconcealable

Translations (4)

gv so-cheiltyn (able to be concealed) · hi गोपनीय (able to be concealed) · gv so-follaghey (able to be concealed) · hi गुह्य (able to be concealed)