debatable

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[dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ] (UK)

Definition of debatable

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.
    “Those data are debatable: no one has been able to replicate them.”
    “It's debatable whether he is the best candidate for the position.”
    “While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way. There are those concepts, however, whose reality is debatable, even to the SCP Foundation, begging them to ask the question of what, exactly, is real.”
    “There’s been a change in President Donald Trump. He used to say he had accomplished more than any other President, a debatable claim. But now he’s using messianic language about himself.”
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adj

  1. Open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.
    “Those data are debatable: no one has been able to replicate them.”
    “It's debatable whether he is the best candidate for the position.”
    “While the SCP universe is, of course, filled with things that we would certainly not consider "real", most of the SCPs are tangible or perceivable in some way. There are those concepts, however, whose reality is debatable, even to the SCP Foundation, begging them to ask the question of what, exactly, is real.”
    “There’s been a change in President Donald Trump. He used to say he had accomplished more than any other President, a debatable claim. But now he’s using messianic language about himself.”
  2. Able to be debated; up for discussion.
    “The lack of bonuses this year is not debatable.”

noun

  1. A topic that is open to debate.
    “Just how many glaucoma patients there are in the United States and just how prevalent is the disease are two unknowns or at least two debatables.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French debatable (French débattable), equivalent to debate + -able.

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