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Word Meanings - DESCRIBABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That can be described; capable of description.

Related words: (words related to DESCRIBABLE)

  • DESCRIBER
    One who describes.
  • DESCRIBENT
    See GENERATRIX
  • DESCRIBABLE
    That can be described; capable of description.
  • DESCRIPTION
    1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
  • CAPABLENESS
    The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
  • DESCRIBE
    write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and 1. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to
  • CAPABLE
    1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.
  • UNCAPABLE
    Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
  • INCAPABLE
    Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
  • OVERCAPABLE
    Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
  • MISDESCRIBE
    To describe wrongly.
  • UNSCAPABLE
    Not be escaped; inevitable. Wyclif.
  • INDESCRIBABLE
    Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib"a*bly, adv.
  • INESCAPABLE
    Not escapable.
  • INCAPABLENESS
    The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
  • ESCAPABLE
    Avoidable.

 

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