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HEARABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hearable mean?
• HEARABLE (adjective)
The adjective HEARABLE has 1 sense:
1. heard or perceptible by the ear
Familiarity information: HEARABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heard or perceptible by the ear
Synonyms:
audible; hearable
Context example:
he spoke in an audible whisper
Similar:
clunky (making a clunking sound)
sonic (relating to audible sound)
sounding (making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form)
Also:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
perceptible (capable of being perceived by the mind or senses)
Attribute:
audibility; audibleness (quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear)
Derivation:
hear (perceive (sound) via the auditory sense)
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