adjective

• Able to be described in words.

  ‘you've got to distill the ineffable je ne sais quoi down into something that's clearly effable’

  More example sentences

  • ‘To be sure, depicted as jovial, effable, and magnanimous throughout, the beaten ‘Bull’ continues to embody ‘manly’ virtues such as fortitude, determination, persistence, strength, vigor, and so forth.’
  • ‘That it is a special but effable sort of strongly-self-modelling computational process.’
  • ‘So it is there that is situated the first thing that is effable and can be called by proper names.’