enunciable

English

Etymology

From enunci(ate) +‎ -able.

Adjective

enunciable (comparative more enunciable, superlative most enunciable)

1. (of words, linguistic expressions, etc.) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.
2. (of ideas, thoughts, etc.) Capable of being expressed clearly in language.
   • 1989, Richard Schechner, "Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting," TDR, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring), p. 6,

     Even scientific propositions regarding entities like "strange attractors" or "quarks" are not understood by many people—and are accepted as real only when these abstruse ideas, often enunciable only as mathematical equations, have been translated into "practical results."

Synonyms

• articulable, expressible

References

• “enunciable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “enunciable”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.