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ascribable

ascribable adjective: able to be ascribed.

Adjective

ascribable (comparative more ascribable, superlative most ascribable)

  1. Able to be ascribed.
    • A death, a drought ascribable to the sorcery of a weathermaker, a cyclone and so forth could always excite the natives to acts of revenge, and consequently no man could leave his district unarmed […]1999, Felix Speiser, Ethnology of Vanuatu, page 211
    • The Soviet Union apparently took the U.S.— Japanese political-military alliance quite seriously—probably more seriously than we might imagine. The Soviet Union’s reluctance to return the Northern Territories to Japan, even at the expense of the bilateral relationship, is ascribable to the global...2000, Hiroshi Kimura, “Basic Determinants of Japanese-Soviet Relations”, in Japanese-Russian Relations under Brezhnev and Andropov, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12

ascribable meaning in Tamil

ascribable in Tamil

சார்த்திக் கூறத்தக்க

Forms of ascribable

comparativemore ascribable
superlativemost ascribable

Origin of ascribable

From ascribe + -able.

Questions about ascribable

What does ascribable mean?
Ascribable means able to be ascribed.
What is ascribable in Tamil?
Ascribable in Tamil is சார்த்திக் கூறத்தக்க. See Ascribable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ascribable?
Ascribable is an adjective.

Words near ascribable in the dictionary

  1. ascoviruses
  2. ascr.
  3. Ascra
  4. Ascran
  5. Ascrans
  6. ascribable
  7. ascribe
  8. ascribed
  9. ascribed status
  10. ascribed statuses
  11. ascribes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ascribable (page history and authors); ascribable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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