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tangible

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.b(ə)l//
  • United States//ˈtæn.d͡ʒə.bəl//

Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.

adjective

  1. 1

    Touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch.

  2. 2

    Perceptible; able to be perceived.

    While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way.

  3. 3

    Able to be treated as fact; real or concrete.

    And for Rodgers, who cleaned up with Celtic in Scotland, this was another significant addition to his CV, as his expert guidance of Leicester - who are in a strong position to finish in the Premier League's top four and face Chelsea again at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday - now has a tangible reward in the shape of the FA Cup.

    Leaders say they have struggled with the latest generation's tangible challenges, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing, and [not] using language appropriate for the workspace.

  4. 4

    Comprehensible by the mind; understandable.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”)

noun

  1. 1

    A physical object; something that can be touched.

  2. 2

    Real or concrete results.

    Yes, but what are the tangibles?

Forms

plural
tangibles
comparative
more tangible
superlative
most tangible
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).