Palpable
['pælpəb(ə)l] or ['pælpəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt; 'a barely palpable dust'; 'felt sudden anger in a palpable wave'; 'the air was warm and close--palpable as cotton'; 'a palpable lie' .
(adj.) can be felt by palpation; 'a palpable tumor' .
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Definition
(a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
(a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Tangible, tactile.[2]. Manifest, obvious, plain, evident, glaring, unmistakable, gross, easily seen, very perceptible.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Material, corporal, tangible, obvious, gross, perceptible, evident, distinct
ANT:Immaterial, incorporal, invisible, ethereal, impalpable, indistinct, dubious,imperceptible
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Definition
adj. that can be touched or felt: easily perceived or found out as lies &c.: looking as if it might be touched or felt: obvious gross.—ns. Palpabil′ity Pal′pableness quality of being palpable: obviousness.—adv. Pal′pably.—v.t. Pal′pāte to examine by touch.—n. Palpā′tion the act of examining by means of touch.
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Examples
- At this inquiry, Mr. Snodgrass gave such a very undisguised and palpable start, that no further reply was needed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was very cold, and the darkness was palpable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Madame Defarge knitted steadily, but the intelligence had a palpable effect upon her husband. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Then you find yourself a palpable body of darkness, a demon--' 'But why should I be a demon--? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To me they stood in the place of an active career, of ambition, and those palpable excitements necessary to the multitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The spring of junction seemed suddenly to have become palpable; I felt it yield to pressure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For she was to him what he was to her, the immemorial magnificence of mystic, palpable, real otherness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But Newland Archer was too imaginative not to feel that, in his case and May's, the tie might gall for reasons far less gross and palpable. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was a palpable display, repeated on every possible occasion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The effect upon Eustacia was palpable. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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