MEMORABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does memorable mean? 

• MEMORABLE (adjective)
  The adjective MEMORABLE has 1 sense:

1. worth remembering

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worth remembering

Similar:

unforgettable (impossible to forget)

 Context examples 

The first weekend of the month should work out to be a memorable, joyful weekend.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Often, when we were at work, and she was sitting by, I would see her pausing and looking at him with that memorable face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I remember that during the whole of that memorable day he lost himself in a monograph which he had undertaken upon the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus ended a day memorable to me; it decided my future destiny.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers’ Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel’s treachery.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At earliest dawn our camp was astir and an hour later we had started upon our memorable expedition.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such was the characteristic of Helen's discourse on that, to me, memorable evening; her spirit seemed hastening to live within a very brief span as much as many live during a protracted existence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Gales we encountered now and again, for it was a raw and stormy region, and, in the middle of June, a typhoon most memorable to me and most important because of the changes wrought through it upon my future.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)