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sablest

sablest is the superlative form of sable.

Meaning of sable

Adjective

sable (comparative sabler, superlative sablest)

  1. Sable-coloured, black.
    • When I behold the violet past prime,
      And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
  2. In blazon, of the colour black.
  3. Made of sable fur.
  4. Dark, somber.
    • She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
  5. (archaic, literary) Dark-skinned; Black.
    • Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long.1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 7, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
    Synonyms:
    black, dusky, inky, sooty, swarthy

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Questions about sablest

What is sablest the superlative form of?
Sablest is the superlative form of sable.

Words near sablest in the dictionary

  1. sableness
  2. sabler
  3. sables
  4. Sables-d'Or-les-Pins
  5. Sables-Spanish Rivers
  6. sablest
  7. Sablin
  8. sabling
  9. Sablone
  10. Sablones
  11. sably

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