different between conceal vs concealable

English

Etymology

From Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler (“hide, disguise”), from Latin concel?re, infinitive of concel? (“carefully disguise”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?si?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?sil/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: con?ceal

Verb

conceal (third-person singular simple present conceals, present participle concealing, simple past and past participle concealed)

1. (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Synonyms

• hide
• obfuscate
• secrete

Antonyms

• reveal
• uncover
• admit

Related terms

• concealing, concealed
• concealer
• concealment

Translations

English

Etymology

conceal +? -able

Adjective

concealable (comparative more concealable, superlative most concealable)

1. Able to be concealed.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 2, p. 5,^[1]

     […] he denied the omnisciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable.

   • 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative” in Lectures and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 141,^[2]

     A bag of sequins, a jewel, a balsam, a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

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