paraphrasable
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˌpærəˈfreɪzəbl/
- The teacher emphasized that all instructions should be paraphrasable for better comprehension.
Examples
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And of course, poetry that is primarily "paraphrasable" is at best boring.
Blog text (32) -
I also think the idea that poetry primarily conveys thoughts or ideas, which are paraphrasable by the critic, is problematic.
Blog text (32) -
Both Ransom and Brooks objected to the statement-oriented, paraphrasable side of Winters' poetics, and for the same reason: Winters' work violated the autonomous principle of poetry.
Blog text (32) -
She assigns objective emotion to the poem (specifically its narrative content) and subjective emotion to the formal texture, which is both within the poem and, as that which exceeds a poem's paraphrasable narrative content, also beyond it.
Academic text (2017) -
His explanation was clear and paraphrasable, making it easy for everyone to understand.
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The complex theory can be made paraphrasable by simplifying the technical jargon.
Synonyms
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Using different words to say the same thing
How Easy
Surface Forms
Morphology
paraphrasable = paraphrase (transparent) = paraphrase + able
Standard adjective formation by adding '-able' to the verb 'paraphrase', producing the clear meaning 'able to be paraphrased'.
Etymology
The word paraphrasable comes from para- 'beside' and phrase 'group of words', so a paraphrase puts new words next to the original ones. That's why something paraphrasable can be said again in different words with the same meaning.