Standard Lemma guide

recordable

adj · 3 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

CMU ARPABET: R IH0 K AO1 R D AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

adj

Meaning 1

That can be recorded; capturable.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

Sound and movement are recordable by means of microphones and cameras.
User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: erasable, unrecordable

adj

Meaning 2

Able to be used to record something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adj

Meaning 3

Liable to be retained on someone's criminal record.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English record Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dhlom Proto-Indo-European *-dhlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English recordable From record + -able.

Across languages

Translations

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Catalan: gravable — able to be used to record something
French: enregistrable — able to be used to record something
German: bespielbar — able to be used to record something
Greek: εγγράψιμο (engrápsimo) — able to be used to record something
Italian: registrabile — able to be used to record something
Japanese: 録れる (toreru) — able to be used to record something
Japanese: 収録できる (shūroku dekiru) — able to be used to record something
Polish: nagrywalny — able to be used to record something

Word forms

Inflections and variants

more recordable — comparative
most recordable — superlative

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: irrecordable, nonrecordable, rerecordable

Related: rewritable

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Sources

Where this information comes from

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