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picturable

picturable

7.0
Can be imagined clearly or shown as a drawing
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɪkʧərəbəl/
translation icon : representable
  • The artist chose subjects that were easily picturable, making them perfect for her paintings.

Examples

  • During the meeting, he described his ideas in such a way that they became picturable for everyone present.

  • The beautiful landscape was so vivid that it felt entirely picturable in my mind.

  • All words were picturable nouns and, within a set, were semantically unrelated.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The target words were high-frequency, familiar, picturable nouns with similar lexical frequencies across the two conditions to avoid a confounding frequency effect.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

visualizable
vspicturable
  • US
5.8

Able to be imagined as a clear picture in the mind

is about being suitable to appear in an actual picture rather than just imagined
imageable
vspicturable
  • Specialized
6.3

Able to be seen and recorded by medical scans like MRI

is about being suitable for being shown in a picture rather than technical capture

How Picturable

photogenic
17 3.6
picturable
7.0
displayable
  • Specialized
3.8

Surface Forms

picturable positive

Morphology

picturable = picture (transparent) = picture + able

Standard derivation meaning 'able to be pictured' formed by productive suffixation of '-able' to 'picture'.

Etymology

Picturable comes from picture (an image or painting) plus -able meaning 'can be'. So it describes something that 'can be shown as a picture' or is easy to imagine as an image.