memorable

[ mem-er-uh-buhl ]

/ ˈmɛm ər ə bəl /

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adjective

worth remembering; notable: a memorable speech.

easily remembered.

OTHER WORDS FOR memorable

1 noteworthy, impressive, celebrated.

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Origin of memorable

1400–50; late Middle English <Latin memorābilis worth mentioning, equivalent to memorā(re) to mention + -bilis-ble

OTHER WORDS FROM memorable

mem·o·ra·bil·i·ty, mem·o·ra·ble·ness, nounmem·o·ra·bly, adverbun·mem·o·ra·ble, adjective

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How to use memorable in a sentence

Turn back-of-the-package recipes into a memorable Thanksgiving meal with these simple upgradesEssential Mashed Potatoes.
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Irrfan Khan followed up on a memorable role in Slumdog Millionaire with a terrific turn in the show’s third season.
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A big breakthrough for the Blood Manor shows came in 1974 after Skip saw a memorable movie in Philadelphia.
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Google grabs the “coconut shells for horses” Halliday, which honors the memorable Monty Python scene of turning necessity into invention, for its “Launch Night In” event.
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Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, one of our most memorable moments was our grandmother carrying a basket of vegetables in both hands and a bowl of herbs balancing on her head.
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Events rather which, except as characteristic of one memorable Man and King, are mostly now of no memorability whatever.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
Two other little passages, and only two, we will mention; which have in themselves a kind of memorability.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIX. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
The memorability of an act is, in fact, a better proof of consciousness than its complexity.
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British Dictionary definitions for memorable

memorable

/ (ˈmɛmərəbəl, ˈmɛmrə-) /

adjective

worth remembering or easily remembered; noteworthy

Derived forms of memorable

memorability or memorableness, nounmemorably, adverb

Word Origin for memorable

C15: from Latin memorābilis, from memorāre to recall, from memor mindful

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