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Webster 1913 Edition
Utterable
Ut′ter-a-ble
,Adj.
Capable of being uttered.
Webster 1828 Edition
Utterable
UT'TERABLE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
utterable
utterable
English
Adjective
utterable (not comparable)
- Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.
- 1850, Herman Melville, White Jacket, ch. 92,
- An utterable nausea oppressed me.
- 1917, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 20,
- In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import.
- 1850, Herman Melville, White Jacket, ch. 92,
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.