describe
verb (used with object)
to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of.
describable
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a word derived from
describe.
Example Sentences
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I was happy, however, to see Terence Nance, whose great surrealist-operatic HBO series “Random Acts of Flyness” is describable only at length, included.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
Looking back, I was seeking my own instruction: I wanted to challenge myself to expand the field of the describable.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
“The tragedy of our poor wounded here in America is not describable without shedding tears, and those left behind with the enemy have no aid.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
But here we are in a readily describable, purely mathematical domain.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2020
Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
