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memorable

[ mem-er-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. worth remembering; notable:

    a memorable speech.

    Synonyms: celebrated, impressive, noteworthy

  2. easily remembered.


memorable

/ ˈmɛmrə-; ˈmɛmərəbəl /

adjective

  1. worth remembering or easily remembered; noteworthy


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmemorably, adverb
  • ˌmemoraˈbility, noun

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Other Words From

  • memo·ra·bili·ty memo·ra·ble·ness noun
  • memo·ra·bly adverb
  • un·memo·ra·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of memorable1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin memorābilis “worth mentioning,” from memorā(re) “to mention” + -bilis -ble

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Word History and Origins

Origin of memorable1

C15: from Latin memorābilis, from memorāre to recall, from memor mindful

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Example Sentences

“This was by far the craziest and most memorable year of my life,” she says.

Memorable songs that are impossible to get out of your head?

Alongside YOLO, “same damn time” is one of the most memorable recent additions to the lexicon.

Few authors write more transparently about music than Swafford, who has also penned memorable lives of Brahms and Ives.

It was Tarshis who gave the comedian the memorable epithet “Jell-O Man.”

John Wilkes released from the tower by the memorable sentence of chief justice Pratt.

Since that memorable night of mingled joy and despair, I thought not that such rapture awaited me again on earth.

John Hales died; an English author, so much admired for his wit and learning, that he is called the ever memorable.

Therefore, short work was made of this part of the memorable sale and the grounds were rapidly deserted of nearly all.

Everybody had gone, leaving a vastly different Skyrie from that which greeted the rising sun of that memorable day.

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