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tactable

tactable adjective: capable of being touched; tangible.

Adjective

tactable (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being touched; tangible.
    • [T]he decree, that women / Should not neglect the service of their lovers, / But pay them from the exchequer they were born with, / Was good and laudable; they being created / To be both tractable and tactable, / When they are useful: […]1624 November 3 (first performance), Philip Massinger, “The Parliament of Love”, in W[illiam] Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol...

Questions about tactable

What does tactable mean?
Tactable means capable of being touched; tangible.
What part of speech is tactable?
Tactable is an adjective.

Words near tactable in the dictionary

  1. tact
  2. tact time
  3. tact times
  4. tact-ravan
  5. tact-ravans
  6. tactable
  7. tacted
  8. tactful
  9. tactfully
  10. tactfulness
  11. tactfulnesses

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