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open-textured

open-textured adjective: porous.

Adjective

open-textured (comparative more open-textured, superlative most open-textured)

  1. porous
  2. evading a precise or holistic definition
  3. subject to constant attempts at ascribing a meaning, due to a legal rule's vagueness or multiple interpretations
    • Lacking any clear textual or historical definition of its own, the phrase "probable cause" is every bit as open-textured as these other terms of art and is every bit in need of sound analytical and doctrinal exposition.March 30, 2020, Andrew Manuel Crespo, “Probable Cause Pluralism”, in Yale Law Journal, page 8

Forms of open-textured

comparativemore open-textured
superlativemost open-textured

Questions about open-textured

What does open-textured mean?
Open-textured means porous.
What part of speech is open-textured?
Open-textured is an adjective.

Words near open-textured in the dictionary

  1. open-source
  2. open-sourced
  3. open-sourceness
  4. open-sources
  5. open-sourcing
  6. open-textured
  7. open-toed
  8. open-top
  9. open-top bus
  10. open-top buses
  11. open-topped

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