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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

underlinable en · ADJ

Etymology

From underline + -able.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Capable of being underlined.
    • In bookstores (you remember them), windows and prime-space tables display language books — not images on screens but easy-to-read print on paper pages happily bound together and easily earmarkable, underlinable and turnable. 2009 April 26, William Safire, “Wide World of Words”, in New York Times: