Palpable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palpable \Pal"pa*ble\, a. [F. palpable, L. palpabilis, fr.
     palpare to feel, stroke; cf. palpus the soft palm of the
     hand.]
     1. Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the
        touch; as, a palpable form. --Shak.
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              Darkness must overshadow all his bounds,
              Palpable darkness.                    --Milton.
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     2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily
        perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture;
        palpable absurdity; palpable errors. "Three persons
        palpable." --P. Plowman.
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              [Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable. --Shak.
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              A hit, A very palpable hit.           --Shak.
                                                    (Hamlet)
        [1913 Webster] -- {Pal"pa*ble*ness}, n. -- {Pal"pa*bly},
        adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  palpable
       adj 1: capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind;
              especially capable of being handled or touched or
              felt; "a barely palpable dust"; "felt sudden anger in
              a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and
              close--palpable as cotton" [syn: {tangible}] [ant: {impalpable}]
       2: can be felt by palpation; "a palpable tumor"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "palpable":
     apparent, appreciable, arresting, believable, certain, clear,
     clear as crystal, colorable, concrete, credible, crystal-clear,
     detectable, discernible, distinct, evident, explicit, express,
     indisputable, indubitable, manifest, material, noticeable,
     observable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, patent,
     perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day,
     plausible, ponderable, positive, real, remarkable, seeable,
     seeming, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, sensible,
     solid, straightforward, striking, substantial, substantive, sure,
     tactile, tangible, to be seen, touchable, unequivocal,
     unmistakable, visible, weighable