wordableadj.
/ˈwəːdəbl/, U.S. /ˈwərdəb(ə)l/ Capable of being expressed in words.
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1890 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 13 Apr. 1/5 The ‘gossip’ is obliged to wait quite a little while before said gossip can form any wordable thing out of the jumble of syllables muttered rapidly by the first gossip.
1920 O. Elton Eng. Lit. 1830–1890 I. 356 The embodiment of hardly wordable feeling in ‘Tears, idle tears’.
1938 Sci. Monthly Oct. 321/2 It is this want that sends our imagination out in search of ideas not yet wordable.
2007 D. DeLillo Falling Man v. 73 She knew there was something she'd wanted to say all along and it finally seeped into wordable awareness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1890- homoeotypic
- homoeotypical
- homoeozoic
- homoerotic
- homoerotically
- homoeroticism
- homoeroticisms
- homoerotism
- homoerotisms
- homofluoresceine
- homogametic
- homogamety
- homogamic
- homogamies
- homogamous
- homogamy
- homogangliate
- homogen
- homogenate
- homogenates
- homogene
- homogeneal
- homogeneal surds
- homogenealness
- homogenean