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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hintable en · ADJ

Etymology

From hint + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) That can be hinted at, or alluded to.
    • And as for boils, as for boils, well, as for boils — Well, my pen recoils, Because people's invariable humorous remarks about other people's boils are invariably unprintable, And most of them are not even hintable. 1936, The New Yorker, volume 12, page 19:
  2. (not-comparable) Having support for hinting.

Antonyms

unhintable