palpable
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
palpable
- Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
- Synonyms: tangible, touchable
- circa 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 5, scene 2:
- Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.
- 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, "Ligeia":
- I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
- 1894, Bret Harte, "The Heir of the McHulishes" in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories:
- The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable, horizontally driving rain.
- Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
- Synonyms: manifest, noticeable, patent
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu chapter 24:
- Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
- 1916, Kathleen Norris, The Heart of Rachael, chapter 7:
- No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
- (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
- French: palpable
- German: greifbar
- Italian: palpabile
- Portuguese: palpável
- Russian: осяза́емый
- Spanish: palpable
- Portuguese: palpável
- Russian: прощу́пываемый
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