🗣️ Able to express 🤐 Socially acceptable 👄 Easy to pronounce

sayable

1 6.2

Acceptable to express aloud in a situation

adjective
/ˈseɪəbl/

: decible

In this context, the message was completely sayable and welcomed by everyone at the meeting.

Examples

The teacher always emphasizes that all feedback should be sayable to create a respectful atmosphere.
She shared a sayable opinion that encouraged open discussion among her peers.
I want to thank the audience and I want the take away line to be all that is sayable is hearable.
However, it is clear that many African artists, working across diverse social and market frameworks, are creating potent images that are a "complex intersection of the seeable, the sayable, and the palpable" (Mitchell 1994:224).

Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

unobjectionable

vssayable

1 5.2

Not likely to upset or offend people

is about being proper to express in a particular social context

tellable

vssayable

1 5.1

Possible to share with other people by speaking

focuses on being proper to express in a specific social situation

nonoffensive

vssayable

1 3.8

Does not upset people and avoids rude or hurtful words

is about being appropriate or allowed to voice in specific social settings

Antonyms

offensive

Offensive

276 4.0

Likely to make people angry or upset

improper

93 4.1

Not suitable according to normal rules or standards

How Appropriate

acceptable

392 2.5

sayable

1 6.2

inappropriate

367 3.7

taboo

38 5.2

unsayable

NSFW

1 9.3

Surface Forms

sayable positive

Morphology

sayable = say (semi-transparent) = say + able

Built from 'say' + '-able' but extended to a pragmatic sense of social permissibility, which is a figurative/pragmatic extension learners might not infer immediately.

Etymology

Sayable comes from say ('speak') plus -able ('able to'), so to call something sayable is to mean it is 'okay' or 'allowed' to say in that place or situation.