sayableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈseɪəbəl/

形容詞

sayable (comparative more sayable, superlative most sayable)

1. Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable. [from 17th c.]
   • 2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12:

     Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment.

派生語

名詞

sayable (plural sayables)

1. That which can be said. [from 20th c.]
   • 2015, Ana María Mora-Marquez, The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, page 113:

     On the other hand, verbs indicate incomplete sayables – predicates – that are related to actions and undergoing of actions.

参照

• “sayable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• "sayable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.