Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Utterable; capable of being explained; explicable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic able to be spoken of; able to be expressed
Etymologies
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Examples
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All thanks to Linda and the other doyennes of technological progress such as Marylin Chambers, Traci Lords and the ineffable (actually, very effable) Nina Hartley.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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All thanks to Linda and the other doyennes of technological progress such as Marylin Chambers, Traci Lords and the ineffable (actually, very effable) Nina Hartley.
Post for 'Ada Lovelace Day' Dungeekin 2009
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Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher.
James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre 2010
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It is interesting to note, that while Washington seems increasingly populated by $20-a-head edutainment “museums” and wax-statue celebrity shrines, that San Francisco is welcoming an institution where one can consider “first-things,” the basic questions that art seeks to address and accommodate a range of effable and ineffable responses.
Field Trip: The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
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His ineffable, effable, effanineffable, deep and inskrootabul singular nayme.
LAZY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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For you the word good has such a sense, because you were taught in fine Foucauldian fashion that all value judgments are assertions of power, but it follows neither that I share the same ineffable sense—my goal is to make the ineffable effable—nor that your Foucauldianism is correct about value judgments without further argument.
Good, better, best 2009
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A daring call by Suresh Dey, quite unusual of his effable persona!
Savitri Era Party extends its invitation to all those who are agog with August inspiration Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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A daring call by Suresh Dey, quite unusual of his effable persona!
Archive 2008-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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That seems to be the ultimate hubris to me — to assume that the ineffable is “effable.”
Firedoglake » A Constitutional Crisis of Cheney’s Making? 2006
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Such considerations suggested to the author of that article that the ineffable name, when rendered effable, may have been pronounced Yahuah or Yahoah.
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