notable
Meanings
Plural: notables
Noun
- a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
- A person or thing of distinction.
Adjective Satellite
- worthy of notice
- widely known and esteemed
- "a notable historian"
Adj
- Worthy of note; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
- Easily noted (without connotations of value); clearly noticeable, conspicuous.
- That can be observed; perceptible.
- Industrious, energetic; (specifically) (usually of a woman) capable, efficient in household management.
- Useful; profitable.
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English notable (“worthy of note, profitable, useful”), in some senses from Anglo-Norman notable (“noteworthy”), from Latin notābilis (“noteworthy, extraordinary”), from notō (“to note, mark”); in some senses from Middle English note (“benefit, profit, use, advantage”), from Old English notu (“t-use, profit, advantage, employment”) + -able; equivalent to note + -able. Compare English noteful (“useful”).
Synonyms
apparent, arrant, bait, blatant, celebrated, clear, clear as a bell, clear as day, clear cut, crystal clear, cut and dried, decided, distinguished, elucidate, eminent, evident, eyely, famed, famous, far-famed, forestanding, glaring, guiding light, illustrious, intuitive, leading light, luminary, manifest, markworthy, mentionable, nameable, namely, nameworthy, notability, notable, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, observable, obvious, open-and-shut, ostensible, outstanding, palpable, pass-remarkable, patent, plain, plain as a haystack, plain as a pikestaff, plain as day, plain as Dunstable highway, plain as porridge, plain as print, plain as Salisbury, plain as the nose on one's face, ponderable, prima facie, prominent, remarkable, renowned, res ipsa loquitur, signal, sovereign, straightforward, undissembled, undoubted
Antonyms
boring, ignorable, improminent, irrelevant, nameless, negligible, non-notable, normal, obscure, subtle, trifling, trivial, unremarkable
Scrabble Score: 9
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