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appearable

appearable adjective: able to appear; appearing; apparent.

Adjective

appearable (comparative more appearable, superlative most appearable)

  1. Able to appear; appearing; apparent.
    • Some of the islands are continents in appearance and in effect from any view to be had of them save only on the map; but by far the greater number are small and appearable as such...1979, John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, page 250
    • Template-independent synthesis proceeds with an appearable maximum rate in the presence of one dNTP whose incorporation is inhibited by the addition of the rest dNTP.1979, Max Hartmann, Berichte Biochemie und Biologie, volume 485, page 106

Forms of appearable

comparativemore appearable
superlativemost appearable

Origin of appearable

From appear + -able.

Questions about appearable

What does appearable mean?
Appearable means able to appear; appearing; apparent.
What part of speech is appearable?
Appearable is an adjective.

Words near appearable in the dictionary

  1. appeals to emotion
  2. appeals to nature
  3. appear
  4. appear in the Gazette
  5. appear'd
  6. appearable
  7. appearance
  8. appearance money
  9. appearanced
  10. appearances
  11. appearances are deceptive

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