Usually means: Clearly perceptible; easily noticeable or felt.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. palpable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. palpable: Merriam-Webster
  3. palpable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. palpable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. palpable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. palpable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Palpable, palpable: Wordnik
  8. palpable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. palpable: Wiktionary
  10. palpable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. palpable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. palpable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. palpable: Dictionary.com
  14. palpable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. palpable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Palpable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Palpable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. palpable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. palpable: Rhymezone
  20. palpable, palpable, palpable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. palpable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. palpable: FreeDictionary.org
  23. palpable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. palpable: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. palpable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palpable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palpable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. palpable: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Palpable: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. palpable: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. Palpable: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  7. palpable: Medical dictionary
  8. Palpable: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. palpable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (palpable)

▸ adjective:  Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Obvious or easily perceived; noticeable.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) That can be detected by palpation.

Similar:
tangible, perceptible, obvious, touchable, tactable, feelable, tactile, sensable, fingerable, tractable, more...

Opposite:
impalpable, intangible, insubstantial

Phrases:
Palpable purpura, opposite of palpable, palpable and overriding error, not palpable, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     vermilion, more...


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Similar:
tangible, perceptible, obvious, touchable, tactable, feelable, tactile, sensable, fingerable, tractable, more...

Opposite:
impalpable, intangible, insubstantial

Phrases:
Palpable purpura, opposite of palpable, palpable and overriding error, not palpable, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     ruby,     vermilion, more...



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