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captionable

captionable adjective: capable of being captioned.

Adjective

captionable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being captioned.
    • You get forty captionable full-screen pictures on disk (samples shown here). Half of the pictures are automatically animated as soon as you put them on the screen. Choose from a dozen caption typestyles to give your messages variety.1987, InCider, volume 5, page 134
    • Since photographs exist without captions but not the reverse – namely, a caption without a photograph – whatever image is considered photographable leads to what is captionable.2013, Ian Richard Netton, Orientalism Revisited: Art, Land and Voyage, page 131

Origin of captionable

From caption + -able.

Questions about captionable

What does captionable mean?
Captionable means capable of being captioned.
What part of speech is captionable?
Captionable is an adjective.

Words near captionable in the dictionary

  1. captees
  2. capthepsin
  3. capting
  4. captings
  5. caption
  6. captionable
  7. captioned
  8. captioner
  9. captioners
  10. captioning
  11. captionings

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