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sayable
adjective
uk /ˈseɪ.ə.bəl/ us /ˈseɪ.ə.bəl/
able to be said, because of not being offensive or embarrassing or because it can be expressed in words:
In his writing, he is always trying to push the boundaries of what is sayable.
I want to make these subjects sayable and hearable.
I have a much larger sense of what is sayable.
Not everything that is knowable is also sayable.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Saying & uttering
(your) every wordidiom
add
come out with something
every
fall from something
find your voiceidiom
get in
in your own wordsidiom
intone
loud
mouth
quoth
say
spoken
string
talk senseidiom
think
utterance
verbalize
volunteer
sayable
noun
uk /ˈseɪ.ə.bəl/ us /ˈseɪ.ə.bəl/
the sayable
anything that can be said, especially because it is not offensive or embarrassing:
There's a tension in her writing between the spoken and the unspoken, the sayable and the unsayable.
Her poems are located at the very edge of the sayable.
He makes a distinction between the sayable and the unsayable.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Saying & uttering
(your) every wordidiom
add
come out with something
every
fall from something
find your voiceidiom
get in
in your own wordsidiom
intone
loud
mouth
quoth
say
spoken
string
talk senseidiom
think
utterance
verbalize
volunteer
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