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enunciable

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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adj

Meaning 1

Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: usually

Qualifier: linguistic expressions

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Meaning relationships

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adj

Meaning 2

Capable of being expressed clearly in language.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: usually

Qualifier: thoughts

Examples

  • 1989, Richard Schechner, "Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting," TDR, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring), p. 6, Even scientific propositions regarding entities like "strange attractors" or "quarks" are not understood by many people—and are accepted as real only when these abstruse ideas, often enunciable only as mathematical equations, have been translated into "practical results."

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree English enunci(ate) Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English enunciable From enunci(ate) + -able.