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inarticulable

inarticulable adjective: not articulable; incapable of being articulated.

Adjective

inarticulable (not comparable)

  1. Not articulable; incapable of being articulated.
    • I add two letters to this class, under the title of anomalous, which are the Arabic qaf (incorrectly written g, in the Plate, instead of q,) and the Hebrew, or Arabic ain, which some suppose to be inarticulable by a European voice.1825, James Silk Buckingham, editor, The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 6, page 103

Origin of inarticulable

First attested in 1825: formed as in- + articulable; compare inarticulate and the slightly earlier (1824) French inarticulable.

Words formed from inarticulable

Questions about inarticulable

What does inarticulable mean?
Inarticulable means not articulable; incapable of being articulated.
What part of speech is inarticulable?
Inarticulable is an adjective.

Words near inarticulable in the dictionary

  1. inarm
  2. inartful
  3. inartfully
  4. inartfulness
  5. inarticulability
  6. inarticulable
  7. inarticulacies
  8. inarticulacy
  9. inarticulate
  10. inarticulated
  11. inarticulately

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