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investigable

investigable adjective: capable of being investigated or studied.

Adjective

investigable (comparative more investigable, superlative most investigable)

  1. Capable of being investigated or studied.
    • Indeed it is only possible to learn any thing at all of these really curious and interesting aboriginal people, by cross-examining living men, and ascertaining what they remember to have heard their fathers or their grandfathers say. The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of...1869, Dr. Mann, “Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 32, number 1, page 3
    • This, of course, leaves aside those in value theory who maintain that values are not investigable by science.1954, James Bates, “A Model for the Science of Decision”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 21, number 4, page 336

Examples of investigable in a sentence

  • The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank.1869, Dr. Mann, “Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 32, number 1...
  • The Paris population might hold bacteriological and epidemiological secrets, but to Yersin they were investigable and knowable ones.2003, J. Andrew Mendelsohn, "The Microscopist of Modern Life," Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 18, p. 159

Forms of investigable

comparativemore investigable
superlativemost investigable

Origin of investigable

From Latin investigabilis.

Words formed from investigable

Questions about investigable

What does investigable mean?
Investigable means capable of being investigated or studied.
How do you use investigable in a sentence?
The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank.
What part of speech is investigable?
Investigable is an adjective.

Words near investigable in the dictionary

  1. investeth
  2. investibility
  3. investible
  4. investient
  5. investigability
  6. investigable
  7. investigatable
  8. investigate
  9. investigated
  10. investigates
  11. investigatest

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