tropable
/ˈtɹəʊpəbəl/
tropable adjective: that can be troped or is subject to tropes.
Adjective
tropable (comparative more tropable, superlative most tropable)
- That can be troped or is subject to tropes.
- But if we agree with Stevens that Tennessee nature is tropable as wilderness and with the Modern Language Association's advertisements for its 2001 convention that New Orleans' climate is "tropical," from which we might reasonably infer its nature is tropable as jungle, then Mississippi, perhaps...2003 Fall, Jon Smith, “Hot Bodies and "Barbaric Tropics": The US South and New World Natures”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume 36, number 1, pages 108–109
- Exploiting the visual rhetoric of the page, the spatial hiatus between the two hemistichs mimetically distances utterance from intention, and encourages readers to treat the speaking 'I' less as a confessional vessel than a reusable, tropable token, a rhetorical posture or per-sona—an assumed...2012, Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: 'Turning the Word', →ISBN
Forms of tropable
| comparative | more tropable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tropable |
Origin of tropable
From trope + -able.
Questions about tropable
- What does tropable mean?
- Tropable means that can be troped or is subject to tropes.
- What part of speech is tropable?
- Tropable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tropable?
- Tropable is pronounced /ˈtɹəʊpəbəl/.
Words near tropable in the dictionary
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