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imputable

imputable adjective: that may be imputed.

Adjective

imputable

  1. That may be imputed
    • No one having previously heard his history, could for the first time behold Father Mapple without the utmost interest, because there were certain engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  2. Accusable; culpable; chargeable with fault.

Synonyms of imputable

Origin of imputable

From impute + -able.

Words formed from imputable

Questions about imputable

What does imputable mean?
Imputable means that may be imputed.
What part of speech is imputable?
Imputable is an adjective.

Words near imputable in the dictionary

  1. impurples
  2. impurpling
  3. imput
  4. imputabilities
  5. imputability
  6. imputable
  7. imputableness
  8. imputably
  9. imputation
  10. imputational
  11. imputations

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