Effable

Quick meaning: Effable is an adjective meaning (archaic, uncommon) Able to be spoken of; able to be expressed.

Meaning

(archaic, uncommon) Able to be spoken of; able to be expressed.

More Meanings

1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuckable; sexually attractive.

Example Sentences

Ted: It's… I… I… I can't explain it. Natalie: Try! Ted: It's… ineffable. Natalie: I'm not effable?

I could not have chosen better for myself than his highness has chosen for me: my only regret on quitting France is at leaving a prince so effable as Philip, and a courtier so virtuous as St. Simon.

And leave me unto mine, if they be dreams, That take such shapes before me, that I see them; These effable and ineffable impressions Of the mysterious world, that come to me From the elements of Fire and Earth and Water, And the all-nourishing Ether!

This attempt by Joseph Smith Jr. to render effable the sublime and ineffable, to contain in words the appearance of the Father and the Son to him on that long ago spring morning in 1820, has become not only the foundational document and “fountainhead” of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but also a touchstone of faith and orthodoxy for the Latter-day Saints.

Antonyms for effable

Common opposites include ineffable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expressible, utterable, articulable, enunciable, expressable, speakable.

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