Noticeable vs Notable - What's the difference?
noticeable | notable |
Worthy of note; significant.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 Capable of being seen or noticed.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]
(obsolete) Useful; profitable.
* 1754 , James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae: familiar letters domestic and foreign :
Prudent; clever; capable; industrious; thrifty.
* 1863 , Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's lovers :
Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
(dated) Capable of being noted; noticeable; plain; evident.
* Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona :
As adjectives the difference between noticeable and notable
is that noticeable is worthy of note; significant while notable is useful; profitable.As a noun notable is
a person or thing of distinction.noticeable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable . He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
notable
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Mansel, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I shall ever acknowledge a good part of my Education from him.
- Hester looked busy and notable with her gown pinned up behind her, and her hair all tucked away under a clean linen cap; [...]
Etymology 2
From (etyl) notable, from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- [...] how sayest thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
- A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.