characterizable
- adjective
- /ˌkɛrɪktəˈraɪzəbl/
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caracterizable
- In the debate, her views are characterizable as progressive and innovative.
But Rilke, so he wrote one thing that might be characterizable as a novel, but he wrote a lot of poetry.
- But Rilke, so he wrote one thing that might be characterizable as a novel, but he wrote a lot of poetry.
Examples
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This is a classic statistically characterizable process.
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I note third that while a very few such "situations" as have been seen might accurately be characterizable as "heinous," yet on the scale that descends from rape to abuse at the lower end of that term's definitional range, "heinous" is an extreme term and thus inaccurately applied to most of the cases.
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But Rilke, so he wrote one thing that might be characterizable as a novel, but he wrote a lot of poetry.
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Meaning is legitimately characterizable as located in words only when the conceptualizations of the parties involved in the communication are sufficiently aligned.
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But for what reasons does a sport become rated as a feminine sport when it is not perceived as particularly characterizable by the one feature that has been suggested to be distinctive of feminine sports?
Academic text (2001) -
"The problem, in part, is not that he can't hear the voice but that the 340-odd pages contain scarcely a single characterizable dramatic speaker who is located here rather than there and whose individual accent and tone of voice may be distinguished from other accents and tones of other speakers in the volume."
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The artist's style is characterizable by vibrant colors and dynamic shapes.
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The landscape in autumn is characterizable by its stunning array of warm colors.
Synonyms
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3.7
A thing you can describe clearly or show its clear limits
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Able to be described clearly and in detail
A thing that can be shown or described clearly
How Characterizable
Surface Forms
Morphology
characterizable = characterize (transparent) = character + ize + able
Formed by adding the productive suffix '-able' to the verb 'characterize', yielding 'able to be described', which is a straightforward derivation for learners.
Etymology
The word characterizable comes from character, a word for a 'mark' or the qualities that make someone or something special, plus -ize and -able meaning 'can be'. So, something characterizable is 'able to be described' by its marks or qualities.