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tangible
Meaning: able to be touched or clearly perceived as real
tangible in a sentence
How tangible is used in real sentences:
The scholarship gave students a tangible reward for their hard work.
The company demanded tangible proof before approving the expensive project.
“Those synchronized traces made a tangible event of a dream report, linking a volunteer's remembered image to patterns visible seconds before waking.”
— from the passage Signals After Midnight
Synonyms for tangible
Other words for tangible — palpable, concrete and perceptible — carry the same meaning.
- palpable
- concrete
- perceptible
Antonyms of tangible
Words that mean the opposite of tangible:
- intangible
- abstract
Where it comes from
From Latin tangere 'to touch'
Word parts
- tang/tact — touch
tangible: tang (touch) + -ible (able to be)
Memory hook
TAN-gible — you can TAN-gle your fingers around something you can actually TOUCH.