Colourable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkʌləɹəb(ə)l/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Colourable is an adjective meaning Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
Meaning
Apparently true; specious; potentially justifiable.
More Meanings
- (now rare, sometimes law) Deceptive; fake, misleading.
- That can be coloured.
- (obsolete) Colourful.
Example Sentences
A circle graph with no cycle of length four is colourable with three colours.
These results were discovered whilst investigating uniquely edge colourable graphs.
Glauce, what needs this colourable word, / To cloke the cause, that hath it selfe bewrayd?
they told him their comming was for some extraordinary tooles and shift of apparell; by this colourable excuse, they obtained 6. or 7. more to their confederacie […].
Word Forms
- colorable
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include colorate, coloury, colory, chromatic, colourfull, colored.
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