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equable
What does equable mean?
equable (adjective): not varying.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce equable?
/ˈɛkwəbəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does equable come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin aequābilis, from aequō (“make level”), from aequus (“even, level”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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half asleep
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growing old
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disregarded
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not varying
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