palpable
/ˈpælpəbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
Example Sentences
- "Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit."
- "The imagination shuns to reveal its workings, unless it can clothe them in some lovely and palpable shape, and create into existence the high romance, the mournful song, the animated canvass, or the carved marble;..."
- "I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person."
- "The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable, horizontally driving rain."
- "[T]he gondolas stole in and out of the opaque distance more noiselessly and dreamily than ever; and a silence, almost palpable, lay upon the mutest city in the world."
- "The force of her horror must have been palpable in the air, because Jorge's eyes opened as she raised the bayonet up. "Fina?""
Etymology
From Middle French palpable and its source, Latin palpābilis, which is from palpō (“to touch softly”) + -bilis.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: palpable, palpābilis
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpælpəbəl/
- British English: /ˈpælpəbəl/
Inflected Forms
more palpable (comparative)
most palpable (superlative)