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As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
Harry Lloyd

Meaning of "sayable" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SAYABLE

sayable  [ˈseɪəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SAYABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sayable is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SAYABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sayable in the English dictionary

The definition of sayable in the dictionary is anything that can be said or stated.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SAYABLE


assayable
æˈseɪəbəl
conveyable
kənˈveɪəbəl
nonrepayable
ˌnɒnrɪˈpeɪəbəl
obeyable
əˈbeɪəbəl
payable
ˈpeɪəbəl
playable
ˈpleɪəbəl
portrayable
pɔːˈtreɪəbəl
prepayable
priːˈpeɪəbəl
reliable
rɪˈlaɪəbəl
repayable
rɪˈpeɪəbəl
slayable
ˈsleɪəbəl
surveyable
səˈveɪəbəl
swayable
ˈsweɪəbəl
ungainsayable
ˌʌnɡeɪnˈseɪəbəl
unpayable
ʌnˈpeɪəbəl
unplayable
ʌnˈpleɪəbəl
unsayable
ʌnˈseɪəbəl
unswayable
ʌnˈsweɪəbəl
variable
ˈvɛərɪəbəl
weighable
ˈweɪəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SAYABLE

saxophonic
saxophonist
saxtuba
say
say a few words
say amen to
say Kaddish
say the unsayable
say when
say-so
Sayan Mountains
Saybolt universal seconds
SAYE
sayer
Sayers
sayid
saying
sayon
sayonara
sayyid

WORDS THAT END LIKE SAYABLE

able
account payable
buyable
clergyable
copyable
decayable
defrayable
delayable
deployable
destroyable
displayable
dryable
dyable
employable
enjoyable
flyable
fryable
say the unsayable
unemployable
unenjoyable
unflyable

Synonyms and antonyms of sayable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sayable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SAYABLE

Find out the translation of sayable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sayable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sayable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sayable
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

decible
570 millions of speakers

English

sayable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sayable
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sayable
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sayable
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dizível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sayable
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dicible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boleh dikatakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sagbar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sayable
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sayable
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sayable
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sayable
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sayable
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

म्हणण्यायोग्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sayable
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dicibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sayable
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sayable
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sayable
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sayable
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sayable
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sayable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sayable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sayable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SAYABLE»

The term «sayable» is used very little and occupies the 164.542 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SAYABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sayable

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QUOTES WITH «SAYABLE»

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Harry Lloyd
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SAYABLE»

Discover the use of sayable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sayable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
enuntiabile, "the sayable."37 As in the philosophy of the ancient Stoa, the attribute denoted by the "sayable" of the early terminists in no way concerns a real determination of the matters referred to in speech. The anonymous authors of the Ars ...
Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen, 1999
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Using Foucault's Methods
The sayable and the visible are divided from each other, yet insinuate themselves inside the relation between the other and its conditions. The sayable offers the visible in a 'space of dissemination', while offering itself up as a 'form of  ...
Gavin Kendall, Gary Wickham, 1999
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Stoicism
these, two are bodies - that is, the utterance and the existing thing - and one is incorporeal, namely the thing signified and sayable, and this too is true or false. ( Adv. Math. 8.11-12) So, if I were to listen to someone speaking a language I did not ...
John Sellars, 2006
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Foundations for a Science of Language
It is a system of three ways of being sayable —-the mental, the oral and the scriptural —'with this particularity: the orally sayable has tended to become nothing more than a notation of the mentally sayable, and the scripturally sayable nothing ...
Gustave Guillaume, 1984
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Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and ...
The "concrete and historical a priori" sought by Foucault is therefore defined in The Birth of the Clinic as a specific distribution of the visible and the sayable, a " new alliance between words and things, enabling one to see and to say' (BC, xii),  ...
Béatrice Han, 2002
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Literature, Ethics, and Aesthetics: Applied Deleuze and Guattari
In considering the role of description in Foucault's cartography, it is necessary to consider his distinction between the visible and the sayable.20 (While I am not proffering here an equation between the spatial of de Certeau and the visible of ...
Sabrina Achilles, 2012
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Wittgenstein’s Language
Using the metaphor employed here, we might label the two levels of the structure of the book the "sayable" and the "visible." One can read the propositions expressed in the book, but one must ascend the ladder to a higher level in order to be ...
T. Binkley, 1973
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
On the contrary, the sayable expressed by 'It is day' subsists throughout the night (thereby making meaningful (if false) any utterances of 'It is day' incorrectly tokened at night-time).45 Similarly the past and future subsist, as formerly or ...
Brad Inwood, 2014
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Suddenly One Monday: A Collection of Poems
I do not always know if things are sayable. If they are always sayable I am not sure. I only know that when after grappling with words and speech I reach a point where I can say: “Well, this is it!” the question becomes obsolete. What do I care if  ...
Boni Van Beirendonck, 2005
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The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
A sayable is something, TI; but it does not exist, it is not 6v (Plu. Col. m6bc; Comm . Not. 1074d). No text expressly tells us why the Stoics adopted these theses. In his account of the Stoic theory of concept formation Diogenes Laertius reports ...
Keimpe Algra, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SAYABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sayable is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cardinals: Sam Tuiva-what? Dominant.
simply just by his easily sayable first name or whatever you choose to call him, I feel it's very important you know of this guy. He's going to be around awhile if he ... «STLSportsMinute, Jul 15»
2
Kevin Pietersen is the only England player that scares Australia …
What rankles more than the policy of proceeding without him is the Establishment implication that his name is un-sayable, his England career un-revivable ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
What can't you say? Stephen Fry, Slavoj Žižek, Elif Shafak and more …
It's becoming just about sayable, though to howls of pain, that neoliberal economics is nonsense. And that the neoliberal model is broken. What's hard for the ... «New Statesman, May 15»
4
GCHQ's Mysterious Doughnut Goes Rainbow
The day, thankfully shortened to the more easily sayable IDAHOT, came into being to raise awareness of the issues surrounding homophobia, transphobia and ... «Gizmodo UK, May 15»
5
Walter Brueggemann at Faith & Culture Conference 2015 – Lecture …
Totalism: totally contained socio economic political educational social system outside of which there is nothing imaginable, thinkable, sayable, doable… that's ... «Patheos, Apr 15»
6
The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers
Rilke adds, “Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no ... «The New Yorker, Mar 15»
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Obama Jokes Forbidden, but Boston Globe Can Joke About Killing …
Not only would this be considered 'un-sayable' about Obama, but even far milder jokes result in threats of Federal probes. People get fired over them. Whatever ... «FrontPage Magazine, Jan 15»
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Exploring ​artistic freedom in Wales and beyond
Who or what controls what is sayable in the arts? W​ho has a voice in the arts? Do the answers vary as we move around the different ​member ​nations of the ... «Index On Censorship, Dec 14»
9
Labour, Tories scramble to imitate UKIP on immigration
... Thatcher said them 30 years ago. UKIP has changed the face of the debate and made the unsayable, sayable. Immigration_control. Entering a different Britain. «The Commentator, Oct 14»
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Panti Bliss Documentary Launches Campaign to help fund its …
She is, in her own words, “a court jester, whose duty is to say the un-sayable.” 'The Queen of Ireland' is a documentary film that follows Rory's journey from the ... «The Irish Film Television Network, Sep 14»

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