Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being handled, touched, or felt; tangible.
- adjective Medicine Capable of being felt by palpating.
- adjective Easily perceived; obvious: synonym: perceptible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be felt; perceptible by the touch; manifest to sight or touch; hence, appearing as if it might be touched or felt.
- Hence Plain; evident; obvious; easily perceived or detected: as, palpable lies; a palpable mistake.
- In medicine, perceptible by palpation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch.
- adjective Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
touched ,felt orhandled ;touchable ,tangible . - adjective
Obvious oreasily perceived ;noticeable . - adjective medicine That can be
detected bypalpation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective can be felt by palpation
- adjective capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Seeing the fields rimmed by trees or the homey, rundown tavern really makes the earth and the rain palpable to the reader.
The Color of Earth, The Color of Water, The Color of Heaven » Manga Worth Reading 2009
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A familiar aura of sweetness and loss reminiscent of Salinger is palpable from the first pages of the book, when we meet Jane's older brother Henry, who, by introducing his "mature" girlfriend to the family has indelibly altered the paradigm of familial relationships with which young Jane is accustomed.
The Girl's Guide To Hunting & Fishing by Melissa Bank: Questions 1999
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So palpable is this fact that we have commonly accepted it, and taken it for granted that this relation must be a continuous source of trouble to humanity.
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The same is palpable from the sphere here assigned to him.
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Quenched, inhuman, his fingers upon her unrevealed nudity were the fingers of silence upon silence, the body of mysterious night upon the body of mysterious night, the night masculine and feminine, never to be seen with the eye, or known with the mind, only known as a palpable revelation of living otherness.
Women in Love 1907
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This we would call a palpable lie were not so much of _The Bible in Spain_ sheer invention.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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Being conversant with it in my master's family, it was an easy matter for me to coin a palpable lie -- so, whenever I was asked where I was going, and what my business was, (as was often the case) my invariable answer was, that I was looking for a stray horse which had broken from my master's fields.
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The tension between them is palpable, if the definition of "palpable" is: You can see it on TV.
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"The feeling of negativity in the market is palpable, which is why one needs to respect the possibility of a counter-trend rally of decent size in the near term that is fueled by short-covering activity."
Raw Story 2010
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Mofokeng recalls the palpable confusion and fear that ensued.
bilby commented on the word palpable
Go on, palp it.
February 2, 2016