Vocabulary

Palpable

English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.

English meaning
(of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.
Urdu meaning
چھونے کے قابل، ظاہر
Example sentences (from Dawn)

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  1. The climate cost of conflict is both palpable and calculable and the risks associated with it are existential.
    Dawn Editorials — Climate war shock — 2026-04-13
  2. By then, an outpouring of grief had snowballed into palpable anger against the US and Israel.It is worth pointing out that Ayatollah Khamenei`s death had been announced by the US president much earlier, on Saturday night.
    Dawn Editorials — Burning questions — 2026-03-04
  3. Anger was palpable across the Arab world and international condemnation of the attack raised expectations that strong measures would be taken to stop Israel`s growing aggression.
    Dawn Editorials — A summit of inaction — 2025-09-17
  4. America and the West`s panic is palpable, as the emerging global order threatens to replace Western hegemony with a more balanced system, where the Global South has a voice as equals, not as vassals of superpowers.
    Dawn Editorials — `War or peace` — 2025-09-05
  5. The shift in global especially Western opinion against Israel is palpable.
    Dawn Editorials — War on truth — 2025-08-18
Synonyms
perceptible, perceivable, , noticeable, appreciable, discernible, detectable

Antonyms
intangible, imperceptible
Curator example
“a palpable sense of loss”

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