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sperable

sperable adjective: hopeful or hoped for.

Adjective

sperable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) hopeful or hoped for
    • wee may either cast it away, if it be found but a Bladder; Or discharge it, of so much as is vaine, and not sperable.1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy Warre. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S....

Origin of sperable

From Latin sperabilis. Compare esperance and see -ible.

Questions about sperable

What does sperable mean?
Sperable means hopeful or hoped for.
What part of speech is sperable?
Sperable is an adjective.

Words near sperable in the dictionary

  1. speoi
  2. Speonk
  3. speos
  4. Sper
  5. Spera
  6. sperable
  7. speract
  8. speradine
  9. speradines
  10. sperage
  11. sperages

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