as in communicable
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speakable
Adjective
-
Contractors working on the project recently completed pouring the foundation for what will provide smaller housing units meant to make quarantining detainees with communicable illnesses safer and easier.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025 -
Measles outbreaks erupted in the U.S. this year because a highly communicable virus, sometimes circulating abroad, infected a rising population of unvaccinated Americans as well as some visitors from abroad who traveled in this country.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
-
For once it had been achieved in the deserts of West Asia, so the very notion of wind as a linguistically definable entity took off everywhere.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
18 Nov. 2025
-
Their roles are easily definable.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
-
But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.—
Lula Konner,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Oct. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Speakable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speakable. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share