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Translatable

adjective

Capable of being put into another form or style or language. "His books are eminently translatable"

Capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy. Synonyms: convertible, transformable, transmutable. "Ideas translatable into reality"

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"Translatable" Quotes from Famous Books

... jibes of a black fellow are not translatable, or rather not to be printed beyond the margin of strictly scientific works. Courageously free and personal, they would be beyond comprehension in these chaste pages. Why, therefore, attempt to repeat them? A genius has been described as a deviation from the ...

— My Tropic Isle • E J Banfield

... the picture-writings, whether of Central America, of Egypt, of Babylonia, or of other lands. These when translatable bring us nearest of all to the heart of the great past. It is the mind, the thought, the spoken word, of man that is most intimately he; not his face, nor his figure, nor his clothes. Unfortunately, the ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

... ferocity that followed this statement are not translatable. After a gaze of unutterable meaning round the circle Rednose ...

— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne

Words linked to "Translatable" : transmutable, untranslatable, convertible, commutable