denotable

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adjective

Capable of being denoted or marked.

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Meanings

adjectivedenotable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCapable of being denoted or marked.

    JDK9 added support for the diamond operator in anonymous classes if the inferred types are denotable. You cannot use the diamond operator with anonymous classes—even in JDK9—if the inferred types are non-denotable.

    2018, Kishori Sharan, Java Language Features
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    in hot regions, and more spread and digested flowers, a sweet savour may be allowed, denotable from several human expressions, and the practice of the ancients, in putting the dried flowers of the vine into new wine[…]

    c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC

Origin

From denote + -able.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

detonable
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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