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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 earplay

  Familiarity information: HEARABLE used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEARABLE (adjective)


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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