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nonactable

nonactable adjective: not actable.

Adjective

nonactable (not comparable)

  1. Not actable.
    • In classifying epics, in effect, as nonactable forms of tragedy, Aristotle was following in the footsteps of Plato in the Theaetetus, where Socrates remarks that the chief poets in the two kinds of poetry are Epicharmus in comedy and Homer in tragedy.1993, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages, page 2
    • This distinction between nonactable and actable actions echoes our earlier distinction between showing and telling.1999, Rebecca Mcclanahan, Word Painting

Origin of nonactable

From non- + actable.

Questions about nonactable

What does nonactable mean?
Nonactable means not actable.
What part of speech is nonactable?
Nonactable is an adjective.

Words near nonactable in the dictionary

  1. nonacrophonic
  2. nonacrosomal
  3. nonacrostic
  4. nonacrylic
  5. nonact
  6. nonactable
  7. nonactic
  8. nonactic acid
  9. nonactic acids
  10. nonactin
  11. nonacting

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