definable
adjUK [dɪˈfaɪnəbəɫ]
Etymology From define + -able.
1
Able to be defined.
- Many words are definable by using other words.
- He speaks to an audience definable not by its size nor even by its color but by its intellectual jazzhead zeal, and if he sometimes appears to be speaking only to himself, so be it; few people I know have the fervor for anything to match Mackey’s for jazz.2008 February 24, David Hajdu, “Jazz Man”, in New York Times:
- Antonyms
- undefinable, indefinable
- Derived terms
- definably, interdefinable, nondefinable, user-definable
- Related terms
- definability