foregroundable
foregroundable adjective: capable of being brought to the foreground.
Adjective
foregroundable (comparative more foregroundable, superlative most foregroundable)
- Capable of being brought to the foreground.
- Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants.1990, Suzanne Fleischman, Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction, page 181
- So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish his coffee or John could have finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens[…]2004, Tuija Virtanen, Approaches to Cognition Through Text and Discourse, page 104
Forms of foregroundable
| comparative | more foregroundable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most foregroundable |
Origin of foregroundable
From foreground + -able.
Questions about foregroundable
- What does foregroundable mean?
- Foregroundable means capable of being brought to the foreground.
- What part of speech is foregroundable?
- Foregroundable is an adjective.
Words near foregroundable in the dictionary
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