Adjective: sayable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sayable |
| Superlative | most sayable |
Sample Sentences
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Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment. [2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12:]
Adjectives inflected like sayable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English say
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
5. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
6. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
7. Latin -bilis
8. Latin -ābilis
9. Old French -ablebor.
10. Middle English -able
11. English -able
12. English sayable
13. From say + -able.