captionable

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adjective

Capable of being captioned.

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Meanings

adjectivecaptionable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCapable of being captioned.

    Since photographs exist without captions but not the reverse – namely, a caption without a photograph – whatever image is considered photographable leads to what is captionable.

    2013, Ian Richard Netton, Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land and Voyage, page 131
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    You get forty captionable full-screen pictures on disk (samples shown here). Half of the pictures are automatically animated as soon as you put them on the screen. Choose from a dozen caption typestyles to give your messages variety.

    1987, InCider, volume 5, page 134

Origin

From caption + -able.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

captionable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captionable

MLA

“captionable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captionable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “captionable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captionable.

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