Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foregroundable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fore-ground-able
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being brought to the foreground.

Example Sentences

"Clearly, there is nothing intrinsically important about hippos; in fact most grounding-related hierarchies would predict nonhuman, nonindividuated participants to be less newsworthy and therefore less foregroundable than individuated human participants."
"So John finished his coffee is more foregroundable than John didn't finish his coffee or John could have finished his coffee, but it is obvious that context is in these cases extremely important and even more so are our expectations about what usually happens[…]"
"[The Ulysses legend] existed in more coherent form and was thus more easily foregroundable[…]"

Etymology

From foreground + -able.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: foreground

Inflected Forms

more foregroundable (comparative) most foregroundable (superlative)

Questions

What does foregroundable mean?: Capable of being brought to the foreground.
Where does foregroundable come from?: From foreground + -able.

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