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underlinable

underlinable adjective: capable of being underlined.

Adjective

underlinable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being underlined.
    • In bookstores (you remember them), windows and prime-space tables display language books — not images on screens but easy-to-read print on paper pages happily bound together and easily earmarkable, underlinable and turnable.2009 April 26, William Safire, “Wide World of Words”, in New York Times

Origin of underlinable

From underline + -able.

Questions about underlinable

What does underlinable mean?
Underlinable means capable of being underlined.
What part of speech is underlinable?
Underlinable is an adjective.

Words near underlinable in the dictionary

  1. underlighting
  2. underlights
  3. underlimbed
  4. underlimit
  5. underlimits
  6. underlinable
  7. underline
  8. underlineation
  9. underlineations
  10. underlined
  11. underlinement

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