nameable
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- adjective
- /ˈneɪməbl/
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nombrable
- Although they derived from nature's copiousness, they were themselves counter natural since they violated the bedrock order of nameable species.
- nameable color
The object is nameable, storable and preservable, imbued with the power and authority, perhaps even aura, of both place and selection.
- The object is nameable, storable and preservable, imbued with the power and authority, perhaps even aura, of both place and selection.
Examples
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It was who he was in the dark, cigarettes and mumbled sleep, and a hundred other things nameable and not.
Fiction book (2002) -
The fault was not that of a nameable set of rascals, but of all those who had denied their own true nature.
Academic text (1992) -
Pick something and a nameable goal and then try to implement it.
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These basic needs are finite and nameable, but the ways in which these needs can be met are infinite and ongoing.
Blog text (12) -
If there is a nameable common cause in post-poststructuralist "literature" departments these days, it is still, as it has been for several years now.
Academic text (2005) -
The stained carpets of no nameable color look and smell like an old, wet toupee.
Fiction book (1992) -
The object is nameable, storable and preservable, imbued with the power and authority, perhaps even aura, of both place and selection.
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While the Arthurian material that it uses as canon doesn't follow the model of "specific, nameable author," I note the following characteristics of Rhonabwy:
Blog text (8) -
I think of emotions as relatively global, as having boundaries, and as being fairly readily nameable and classifiable—there being, on even the most commodious listing, no great number of possibilities.
Academic text (1993) -
This painting features several nameable creatures from mythology, such as dragons and unicorns.
Synonyms
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Able to be clearly recognized as a particular person or thing
A thing people can call by a word that shows what it is
Antonyms
How Nameable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nameable is made from name ('to give a name') and the ending -able ('able to be'), so it simply means 'able to be given a name'. That's why something nameable can be identified or called by its name.