contestable
contestable adjective: that can be contested; debatable.
Adjective
contestable (comparative more contestable, superlative most contestable)
- That can be contested; debatable.
- Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable.
- LLMs generate text using opaque algorithms that even their designers struggle to control. Wikilambda makes every part of every algorithm available to anyone. In short, Wikilambda is contestable. If you ask an LLM to generate an article on a topic, the only way to contest its algorithm is to click 👍...2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, →DOI
Forms of contestable
| comparative | more contestable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most contestable |
Origin of contestable
From contest + -able.
Words formed from contestable
Questions about contestable
- What does contestable mean?
- Contestable means that can be contested; debatable.
- What part of speech is contestable?
- Contestable is an adjective.
Words near contestable in the dictionary
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