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glimpseable

glimpseable is the alternative spelling of glimpsable.

Meaning of glimpsable

Adjective

glimpsable (comparative more glimpsable, superlative most glimpsable)

  1. Capable of being glimpsed.
    • And Lilia could almost see this other life at times, like a scene playing out on the other side of a gauze curtain, dim but glimpsable: the first quiet years of elementary school and forgetting, kissing boys in cars parked at lookout spots, a front porch with flowers planted in the backs of plastic...2009, Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal, Picador (2015), page 48

Forms of glimpseable

comparativemore glimpseable
superlativemost glimpseable

Questions about glimpseable

What is glimpseable the alternative spelling of?
Glimpseable is the alternative spelling of glimpsable.

Words near glimpseable in the dictionary

  1. glimmery
  2. glimming
  3. glimms
  4. glimpsable
  5. glimpse
  6. glimpseable
  7. glimpsed
  8. glimpselike
  9. glimpser
  10. glimpsers
  11. glimpses

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