speakable
Americanadjective
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able to be spoken out loud, uttered, or described.
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able to be freely discussed or spoken of.
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Trying to sum it up and getting it wrong can be an insult to the grief, so we describe it by what it isn't: speakable, understandable, something that can be uttered.
From Time • Oct. 3, 2017
In the process, as Michael Keith at Oxford University’s migration research centre, Compas, says, “The unspeakable became not only speakable, but commonplace.”
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2016
I can’t testify to its accuracy, but it’s certainly stylish and speakable, in addition to which Ms. Monte has a rock-solid grasp of the often-twisty complexities of “The Guardsman.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 16, 2015
Historically, scandal has functioned as a wedge-driver: When someone violates the status quo, we get up in arms, but we also make the scandalous act speakable.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2014
The things that are not to be said in English are not worth thinking—if they are speakable at all; and some things are not.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
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