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hearably

/ˈhɪəɹəbli/

hearably adverb: audibly, auditorily; discernable through hearing.

Adverb

hearably (comparative more hearably, superlative most hearably)

  1. (especially, formal) Audibly, auditorily; discernable through hearing.
    • On high sat the President imploring order, with his long hands put together as in prayer, and his lips visibly but not hearably speaking. At intervals he grasped his bell and swung it up and down with vigor, adding its keen clamor to the storm weltering there below.1898 March, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Stirring Times in Austria”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DLXXIV, New York: Harper and Brothers, page 534
    • By contrast, in (50), a hearably complete answer to a question that could have been referring to a similar information gap is continuation-receipted.1984, John Heritage, “A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement”, in J. Maxwell Atkinson, John Heritage, editors, Structures of Social Action, New York: Cambridge University...

Forms of hearably

comparativemore hearably
superlativemost hearably

Origin of hearably

From hearable + -ly (adverbial suffix).

Questions about hearably

What does hearably mean?
Hearably means audibly, auditorily; discernable through hearing.
What part of speech is hearably?
Hearably is an adverb.
How do you pronounce hearably?
Hearably is pronounced /ˈhɪəɹəbli/.

Words near hearably in the dictionary

  1. hear'st
  2. hear, hear
  3. hear-through
  4. hearability
  5. hearable
  6. hearably
  7. hearbe
  8. hearbes
  9. heard
  10. Heard County
  11. heard from

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