Word Meanings - DESCRIBABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That can be described; capable of description.

Related words: (words related to DESCRIBABLE)

• DESCRIBER
  One who describes.
• DESCRIBENT
  See GENERATRIX
• DESCRIBABLE
  That can be described; capable of description.
• DESCRIPTION
  1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• DESCRIBE
  write: cf. OE. descriven, OF. descrivre, F. décrire. See Scribe, and 1. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to
• CAPABLE
  1. Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. Concious of jou and capable of pain. Prior. 2.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• UNSCAPABLE
  Not be escaped; inevitable. Wyclif.
• INDESCRIBABLE
  Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib"a*bly, adv.
• INESCAPABLE
  Not escapable.
• INCAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
• ESCAPABLE
  Avoidable.