sketchable

American  

[skech-uh-buhl] / ˈskɛtʃ ə bəl /

adjective

1. suitable for being sketched.

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Other Word Forms

• sketchability
  noun
• unsketchable
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of sketchable

First recorded in 1860–65; sketch + -able

Example Sentences

The structure in question—very sketchable, if the sketcher could get far enough away from it—is an elaborate little dusky façade, overhanging the street, ornamented with panels of stone, which are covered with delicate Renaissance sculpture.

From Hospital Sketches by Peabody, Robert Swain

Such vagueness has overtaken them, for the most part, and to such a thin reverberation have they shrunk, the persons and the affairs which were then so intensely sketchable.

From Picture and Text 1893 by James, Henry

In the town itself, though there is plenty sketchable, there is nothing notable, save the old town-cross, with its weather-worn carvings, which stands upon the shore, with loch and hills for background.

From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

To the Spanish Vistas of Mr. G. P. Lathrop he contributed innumerable designs, delightful notes of an artist's quest of the sketchable, many of which are singularly full pictures.

From Picture and Text 1893 by James, Henry

Why should all this sketchable adversity be lavished upon the neighborhood of a city that is so rich as Venice in picturesque dilapidation?

From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean