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showable

showable adjective: capable of, or suitable for, being shown; exhibitable.

Adjective

showable (comparative more showable, superlative most showable)

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being shown; exhibitable.
    • A longy Manx cat is not showable, though it can make a good pet.

Noun

showable (plural showables)

  1. Something that can be shown.
    • Elvis must have become a new religion, at least in her eyes (and in the eyes of the people who bought her product)! Just like Mabe's unique showables, the wart and the toenail, many people have a unique story they could recall about Elvis, […]1999, Steven Opdyke, The printed Elvis: the complete guide to books about the king, page 183
    • For Meinong's extraordinary work on emotional presentation will provide a series of ideas and distinctions that will enable us to push a bit further the idea of what we might call literary showables.2019, Peter J. McCormick, Modernity, Aesthetics, and the Bounds of Art, page 161

Forms of showable

Adjective
comparativemore showable
superlativemost showable
Noun
pluralshowables

Origin of showable

From show + -able.

Words formed from showable

Questions about showable

What does showable mean?
Showable means capable of, or suitable for, being shown; exhibitable.
What part of speech is showable?
Showable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near showable in the dictionary

  1. show-throughs
  2. show-up
  3. show-ups
  4. Showa
  5. showability
  6. showable
  7. showables
  8. showacene
  9. Showalter
  10. Showalterian
  11. Showalters

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