knowable

adjective

know·​able ˈnō-ə-bəl 

: capable of being known : able to be determined or understood

This year, California votes March 3, and whether it offers a delegate haul for one candidate or a scramble between several candidates is not yet knowable.

—David Weigel

At the end of any year, a fixed and knowable number of us will have developed heart disease, and another number won't have.

—Jeffrey Kluger and Alice Park

A smear of orange tells everything knowable about light when it collides with the bottom of a copper pot.

—Peter Schjedlahl

Examples of knowable in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But whatever history is ultimately knowable, certain falsehoods and myths can be dispelled. —Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025

But there's more intrigue and more mystery, because nothing's totally knowable and solved. —Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 30 May 2025

But the details surrounding the characters of DOOM, their motivations, and their actions are intentionally shorn away, creating the sense that this is a work guided by an inner logic knowable only to the performers themselves. —Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025

Previous discussions of Bartram and peer artist-naturalists have highlighted how their art sought to make the natural world highly visible and knowable. —The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 13 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for knowable

• unknowable