Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suitable for or worthy of quoting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of or suitable for being quoted or cited.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable or worthy of being quoted
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable or worthy of being
quoted ; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suitable for or worthy of quotation
- adjective able or fit to be repeated or quoted
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Examples
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That's not what I call quotable, much less poetic.
O'Neill Staged on an Intimate Scale Terry Teachout 2011
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The movie proved to be immensely quotable from the moment we first saw the trailer (embedded after the jump for your viewing pleasure and nostalgia).
Favorite Brittany Murphy ‘Clueless’ Quotes From Hollywood Crush » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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Most quotable from the NY Times editorial was this comment about Dr. Goddard's grasp of physics: "" does not know of the relation of action to reaction, and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react ".
Today's Video: Encouraging Innovation at NASA - NASA Watch 2009
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Your quotable was the most creative thing in the spit, and that's not a good thing.
unknown title 2009
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There are a few passages that struck me as "quotable" (meaning, I would have underlined them if I was the type to underline in my books).
First Review Linky ____Maggie 2008
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Only failure here is your understanding of the term 'quotable'.
Star Trek Sequel is Starting Pre-Production Next December? « FirstShowing.net 2009
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I found out which of my friends were "quotable", which events in my life were "blog-worthy", and which of my incendiary opinions garnered the most outraged comments.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jay 2008
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I found out which of my friends were "quotable", which events in my life were "blog-worthy", and which of my incendiary opinions garnered the most outraged comments.
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I’ll give you a few highlights that I found particularly worthy or fascinating or just plain quotable.
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_ Quotations and other "quotable" matter, however, are ordinarily set off by quotation marks with no underscores in this edition, in accordance with common English usage, even where they were set in italics with no quotation marks in the Benziger Brothers edition.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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