Meanings
- not comparableThat can be spoken; utterable, verbalizable.
- not comparableAcceptable as a topic of discussion; not subject to taboo.
2016, Major Kwark in Ratchet and Clank (film), 75m Arrest this man for his speakable crimes against the galaxy.
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Once the group knows that suicide is a speakable topic […]
2004, Robert I. Yufit, David Lester, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Suicidal Behavior - not comparableobsoleteCapable of speech.
Redouble then this miracle, and say, / How cam'st thou speakable of mute […]
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecapable of being uttered in words or sentences
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishspekabyll
- Englishspeakable
From Middle English spekabyll; equivalent to speak + -able.
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