palpable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French palpable and its source, Latin palpābilis, which is from palpō (“to touch softly”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpælpəbəl/
- (US) enPR: păl'pə-bəl, IPA(key): /ˈpælpəbəl/
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Adjective
[edit]palpable (comparative more palpable, superlative most palpable)
- Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
- Synonyms: tangible, touchable; see also Thesaurus:tactile
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- Osric: A hit, a very palpable hit.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 227:
- 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;...
- 1838, Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia:
- I had felt that some palpable although invisible object had passed lightly by my person.
- 1894, Bret Harte, “The Heir of the McHulishes”, in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories:
- The next morning the fog had given way to a palpable, horizontally driving rain.
- 1906, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], quoting William Dean Howells, “William Dean Howells”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 234:
- [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.
- 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation[1], archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
- The force of her horror must have been palpable in the air, because Jorge's eyes opened as she raised the bayonet up. "Fina?"
- (figurative) Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
- Synonyms: manifest, noticeable, patent
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, […] . It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 24, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
- Her voice, her palpable agitation, prepared us for something extraordinary.
- 1916, Kathleen Norris, chapter 7, in The Heart of Rachael:
- No use in raging, in reasoning, in arguing. No use in setting forth the facts, the palpable right and wrong.
- 2021 June 28, Lisa O'Carroll, Amelia Gentleman, quoting Elena Remigi, “‘The anxiety is palpable’: EU citizens face looming settled status deadline”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Elena Remigi, of the In Limbo Project, which is documenting the experiences of EU citizens in the UK, said: “The anxiety among EU citizens is palpable. My inbox is full of messages of people asking for reassurance or guidance. […] ”
- (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]capable of being touched
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obvious
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that can be detected by palpation
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin palpābilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]palpable m or f (masculine and feminine plural palpables)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “palpable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “palpable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “palpable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “palpable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin palpābilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]palpable (plural palpables)
- palpable
- Antonym: impalpable
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “palpable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]palpable m or f (plural palpables)
References
[edit]- Etymology and history of “palpable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin palpābilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]palpable m or f (masculine and feminine plural palpables)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “palpable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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