nameable
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
nameable (not comparable)
- Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name.
- 2007 June 20, Broughton, Trev, “More work for Margery Allingham”, in The Times Literary Supplement:
- The vogue for the sleuth-flâneur […] in the first half of the twentieth century has encouraged recent attempts to map the rise of British detective fiction, and its subsequent love affair with the thriller, onto the shifts in national morale precipitated by international conflict. One train of thought, for instance, suggests that the genre provides nameable, explicable corpses to mourn, after the senseless obliterations of the First World War.
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- (obsolete) Worthy of being named or having a name; memorable.
Synonyms
- (specific name): distinguishable, identifiable, recognisable
- (memorable): See also Thesaurus:memorable or Thesaurus:notable
Antonyms
- (specific name): nameless, unidentifiable, unrecognisable
- (memorable): forgettable, irrelevant
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