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lookable

lookable adjective: able to be looked at, or suited to visual interaction; visible.

Adjective

lookable (comparative more lookable, superlative most lookable)

  1. Able to be looked at, or suited to visual interaction; visible.
    • They are outside film because they do not make films that are lookable. The mechanics of the medium are too demanding for them — they would probably not admit this by denying there is anything that you need to know.1972, Howard Hunter, Humanities, Religion, and the Arts Tomorrow, page 197
    • The infant in such a dyad comes to know objects, as Piaget points out, first as lookable, suckable, and graspable.2011, Gregory Fricchione, Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society

Forms of lookable

comparativemore lookable
superlativemost lookable

Origin of lookable

From look + -able.

Questions about lookable

What does lookable mean?
Lookable means able to be looked at, or suited to visual interaction; visible.
What part of speech is lookable?
Lookable is an adjective.

Words near lookable in the dictionary

  1. look-seen
  2. look-sees
  3. look-up
  4. look-ups
  5. lookability
  6. lookable
  7. lookahead
  8. lookahead time
  9. lookahead times
  10. lookaheads
  11. lookalike

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