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articulable

articulable

7.7
Easy to pronounce
  • adjective
  • /ɑrˈtɪkjʊləbəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : pronunciable
  • The teacher encouraged her students to make their thoughts more articulable during the discussion.

Examples

  • To become a better speaker, practice making your ideas articulable and easy for others to understand.

  • He found that his feelings about the situation were articulable after a good night's sleep.

  • In the case of tacit knowledge, however, that strategy is more difficult to implement since tacit knowledge, by definition, is less articulable.

    Academic text (2003)
  • In the various traditions of spiritual inquiry examined, we can note a certain tension between those who claim that contemplation or questioning can reach determinate "answers," articulable in language, and those who claim that no methods can produce and no language can adequately express the core spiritual understanding; for the latter, in an important sense, there are no answers (Fenner 1994).

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

pronounceable
vsarticulable
1 3.5

A word or name you can say clearly

is focused on clear production specifically by the speech organs
speakable
vsarticulable
1 4.5

Something you can say or put into words

focuses on clear oral production rather than general expressibility
sayable
vsarticulable
4.9

Easy to pronounce clearly

is about physical articulation rather than ease of saying
utterable
vsarticulable
6.7

Can be said out loud

concerns clear physical production by the speech organs not just expression

Antonyms

Very hard to say correctly

How Pronounceable

articulable
  • Specialized
7.7

Surface Forms

articulable positive

Morphology

articulable = articulate (transparent) = articul + able

The word is transparently formed from 'articulate' with the suffix '-able', meaning capable of being articulated.

Etymology

The word articulable comes from the Latin verb articulare meaning 'to join parts', and it is the same root as articulate. Imagine your mouth joining and moving small parts to make sounds clearly, so articulable means 'able to be pronounced clearly'.