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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

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

  1. (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

unutterable

Deriveds

inutterable · utterableness · unutterable

Relateds

utterability

Translations (2)

es decible (Translations) · pl wypowiadalny (Translations)