hintable

hintable

English

Etymology

hint +‎ -able

Adjective

hintable (not comparable)

1. (rare) That can be hinted at, or alluded to.
   • 1936, The New Yorker (volume 12, page 19)

     And as for boils, as for boils, well, as for boils —
     Well, my pen recoils,
     Because people's invariable humorous remarks about other people's boils are invariably unprintable,
     And most of them are not even hintable.

Antonyms

• unhintable