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debatable

[dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ]

debatable adjective: open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.

Adjective

debatable (comparative more debatable, superlative most debatable)

  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.
  2. Able to be debated; up for discussion.
    • The lack of bonuses this year is not debatable.

Noun

debatable (plural debatables)

  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.1988, Ray Barr, 1,001 medical facts for every home, page 314

debatable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

debatable in Tamil

எதிராடத்தக்க, விவாதத்துக்குரிய, விவாதிக்கத்தக்க

debatable in Urdu

قابل بحث

debatable in Malayalam

വാദിക്കത്തക്ക, വിവാദത്തിനിടയായ, വിവാദാസ്പദമായ, തർക്കവിധേയമായ

debatable in Kannada

ಚರ್ಚಾಸ್ಪದ, ವಿವಾದಾಸ್ಪದ, ಪ್ರಶ್ನಾರ್ಹ
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debatable in Gujarati
ચર્ચાસ્પદ
debatable in Nepali
बहसयोग्य

Examples of debatable in a sentence

  • 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.2019 January 7, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: Pattern Screamers” (0:11 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the...
  • He used to say he had accomplished more than any other President, a debatable claim.2019 August 21, Zachary B. Wolf, “Trump is either trolling everyone or thinks he’s like a god”, in CNN:

All 17 example sentences with debatable

Forms of debatable

Adjective
comparativemore debatable
superlativemost debatable
alternative formdebateable
Noun
pluraldebatables

Origin of debatable

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

Words formed from debatable

Questions about debatable

What does debatable mean?
Debatable means open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.
What is debatable in Tamil?
Debatable in Tamil is எதிராடத்தக்க, விவாதத்துக்குரிய, விவாதிக்கத்தக்க. See Debatable meaning in Tamil.
How do you use debatable in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is debatable?
Debatable can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce debatable?
Debatable is pronounced [dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ] (UK).

Words near debatable in the dictionary

  1. debashes
  2. debasing
  3. debasingly
  4. debasings
  5. debatability
  6. debatable
  7. debatableness
  8. debatables
  9. debatably
  10. debate
  11. debate bro

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: debatable (page history and authors); debatable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); debatable (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); debatable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); debatable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); debatable (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); debatable (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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