utterable
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utterable (not comparable)
- Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.
- Antonym: unutterable
- 1917 April, Jack London, chapter XX, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 281:
- In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import— [...]
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- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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