MEANING
1. Real and identifiable through a concrete result or experience rather than merely imagined or promised.
2. Having a physical form that can be touched or felt.
Use it for
describing benefits that have actually materialized; contrasting concrete outcomes with abstract commitments; asking what identifiable effect supports an evaluationDistinguishes a concrete, identifiable effect from something merely anticipated or abstract. Academic functions: Evidence, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- tangible benefits
- tangible results
- tangible evidence
On the page
The evaluation distinguishes tangible improvements in waiting times from promises of better service.
The literary analysis asks how the novel gives tangible expression to an otherwise abstract social division.
The accounting discussion separates tangible equipment from intangible rights such as patents.
The museum study contrasts access to tangible objects with access to their digital representations.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- tangible
Usage notes
Adjective. More tangible and most tangible are natural for concrete effects or results; the physically touchable sense is usually categorical. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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