utterable en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English utter Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English utterable From utter + -able.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.
In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import— [...]
1917 April, Jack London, chapter XX, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 281:
Antonyms
Deriveds
inutterable · utterableness · unutterable
Relateds
Translations (2)
es decible (Translations) · pl wypowiadalny (Translations)