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imageable

6.1

Easy to picture in the mind because it gives clear details

adjective
/ˈɪmɪdʒəbl/

: visualizable

His vivid descriptions of the sunset were so imageable that I could almost see it in my mind.

Examples

Its construction, together with that of the Shanghai Museum and the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, all in the vicinity of People's Square, has contributed to a sprucing up of the cityscape with open green spaces, clean, well-maintained structures, and interesting, "imageable" architectural styles.

Academic text (2009)
For instance, Zaidel (1983) found greater right than left hemisphere facilitation for highly associated, concrete, imageable words in normal subjects.

Academic text (2002)
The teacher used colorful illustrations to make the lesson more imageable for her students.
The author's use of descriptive language made the story's setting highly imageable, bringing the scenes to life.

Synonyms

vivid

vsimageable

102 3.3

Making strong, clear images or feelings in the mind

is about ability to create a clear visual image rather than intensity

visualizable

vsimageable

5.8

Able to be imagined as a clear picture in the mind

is focused on easily evoking a clear mental picture

Antonyms

imageless

6.6

Something that has no pictures or clear description to help you see it

How Vivid

vivid

102 3.3

graphic

151 3.7

imageable

6.1

suggestive

18 5.2

abstract

35 7.1

Surface Forms

imageable positive

Morphology

imageable = image (transparent) = image + able

Standard adjectival formation from the noun 'image' with '-able', meaning 'capable of producing or evoking an image', directly inferable.

Etymology

Imageable comes from the word image and the ending -able, with image meaning 'picture' and -able meaning 'able to'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of imageable like imagine or 'picture' in your mind, so it means 'able to make a clear mental picture'.