tellable

Examples

• All

• In the case of Bea's terrible religious experience, I have gathered enough textual clues and contextual background to venture an explanation for why this experience became so memorable and tellable for her.

  Academic text (2017)

• What lingers in Follen's verse and Sedgwick's prose is only the recognition of passing; the recovery of the subject himself remains impossible because he remains undocumented, "without a tellable history" (Said 176).

  Academic text (2018)

• Nevertheless, it would be naive to expect that stories this striking and tellable would remain within individual families' control.

  Academic text (2017)

• They involve a coherent account of a tellable event, framed by a constant moral stance.

  Academic text (2013)

• He may have been growing accustomed to her non sequiturs, or else he was completely absorbed in putting his story into tellable form.

  Fiction book (1998)

• It is a poignant, tellable tale of a mother who waits in vain for her son to return from the war.

  Academic text (1995)

• Once the story is learned and polished, it needs to be told and retold, to be molded into its most tellable form in front of live listeners.

  Academic text (1995)

• The story of the lost dog is a heartwarming and tellable tale that everyone enjoys sharing.

• During the meeting, she presented a tellable account of their adventures that kept everyone engaged.

Synonyms

M

mentionable

vstellable

1 4.8

Important enough to talk about in public

is about being suitable to relate to others rather than mere ability to state it

E

expressible

vstellable

1 5.3

Able to be put into words or shown by actions

is about being suitable to relate to others rather than mere ability to state it

S

speakable

vstellable

1 4.5

Something you can say or put into words

is about being suitable to relate to others rather than mere ability to state it

S

sayable

vstellable

1 5.8

Possible to put into words and speak

is about being suitable to relate to others rather than mere ability to state it

U

utterable

vstellable

1 6.7

Can be said out loud

is about being suitable to relate to others rather than mere ability to state it

D

disclosable

vstellable

• Jargon

1 5.4

Can be shared with other people when the law allows it

is about being suitable to relate to others rather than official permission to reveal it

Antonyms

U

untellable

1 9.9

So great you cannot describe it in words

How Suitable

newsworthy

• Literature

25 4.4

tellable

1 5.1

suitable

180 1.8

sensitive

• Texting

86 4.1

private

654 2.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology