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A shoutout to the author Barthe DeClements, whose book Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade taught me the word tangible:
"Tangible" has Latin bits that literally mean "able to be touched."
Part of speech:
"Tangible" is a common word with a formal, positive tone.
"With my senses of smell and taste knocked out [by COVID], the comforts that would normally have sustained me through an intense illness were profoundly blunted. And I was miserable. Now, months later, I appreciate the aromas and flavors and all the other tangible joys of my world differently, just for experiencing their loss even for a little while."
Explain the meaning of "tangible" without saying "concrete" or "touchable."
Check this out, from Roald Dahl's Matilda:
Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. Don’t skip straight to the review—first, let your working memory empty out.
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The precise opposite of TANGIBLE is INTANGIBLE. But a pretty close opposite of TANGIBLE is
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