Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Utterable; capable of being explained; explicable.
Wiktionary
- adj. archaic able to be spoken of; able to be expressed
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.
Etymologies
- From Latin effor ("I utter") + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All thanks to Linda and the other doyennes of technological progress such as Marylin Chambers, Traci Lords and the ineffable (actually, very effable) Nina Hartley.”
“It is interesting to note, that while Washington seems increasingly populated by $20-a-head edutainment “museums” and wax-statue celebrity shrines, that San Francisco is welcoming an institution where one can consider “first-things,” the basic questions that art seeks to address and accommodate a range of effable and ineffable responses.”
Field Trip: The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco « The Blog at 16th and Q
“Engle makes Sherry adorably effective as an effable, devoted (brings his lunch to work) wife who deals reasonably well with that pesky little transgression and is funny as hell when she learns while drunk that Joe's old flame is married to the renegade preacher.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: Bail Me Out, the Hudson Guild Theatre
“His ineffable, effable, effanineffable, deep and inskrootabul singular nayme.”
LAZY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“For you the word good has such a sense, because you were taught in fine Foucauldian fashion that all value judgments are assertions of power, but it follows neither that I share the same ineffable sense—my goal is to make the ineffable effable—nor that your Foucauldianism is correct about value judgments without further argument.”
“A daring call by Suresh Dey, quite unusual of his effable persona!”
Savitri Era Party extends its invitation to all those who are agog with August inspiration
“That seems to be the ultimate hubris to me — to assume that the ineffable is “effable.””
“Such considerations suggested to the author of that article that the ineffable name, when rendered effable, may have been pronounced Yahuah or Yahoah.”
“Lord Dumbello had remained silent one whole evening in London with effable disgust, because Lord Lufton had been rather particular in his attentions; but then Lord”
“And then there pressed itself as it were, into his soul, the primal outflow of all good, and in it he found in spiritual fashion all that is beautiful, lovely, and desirable, for all was there in a way in effable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘effable’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
ephod, epact, eozoic, eonism, ensiform, ensanguine, enoptromancy, enounce, enosimania, ennomic, enneagon, eolith and 616 more...
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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Interesting words
ineffable, effable, immutable, amorphous, parochial, salient, ascertain, circumspect, congenial, coeval, aversion, edification and 117 more...
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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xstala's Words
oneiric, inchoate, clandestine, tangerine, brusque, clout, benedictine, argonaut, juniper, tulle, zealot, vesper and 175 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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MyVocab
A list of words to remember to incorporate into my vocabulary.
An extensive vocabulary aids expressions and communication.
Vocabulary size has been directly linked to reading com...acquiesce, self-disparaging, receded, abrogate, robust, putative, capricious, imperious, lexicon, syntax, semantics, pith and 139 more...
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Words I just like
hobbitry, obfuscate, moribund, bally, idleness, ale, lostwithiel, elfin, spiffing, wayfaring, methinks, abstruse and 123 more...
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Commonly Mistaken
parochial, vicarious, enjoin, pretentious, eclectic, torpor, descry, censure, deference, venerate, discourse, puissant and 6 more...
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selenography's Words
Mostly words I don't know the meanings to, words that have very interesting secondary (other) meanings, and words that I just like and think sound beautiful: like oblique
mellifluous, estrus, proclivity, fata morgana, aphorism, proscenium, versicle, topsyturvy, arch, saturnine, bravura, oblique and 37 more...
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Emotions & Feelings
felicific, felicity, beatific, sanguine, anodyne, doleful, zeal, alacrity, alacritous, tumult, noxious, indurate and 74 more...
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Poetrie: The Naming of Cats
By T.S. Eliot
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must ...inscrutable, effanineffable, effable, ineffable, rapt contemplation, profound meditation, jellylorum, bombalurina, coricopat, quaxo, munkustrap, quorum and 15 more...
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god is not GREAT
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