Debatable definition

dĭ-bātə-bəl
That can be questioned or disputed.
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In dispute, as land claimed by two countries.
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Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.

Those data are debatable, no one has been able to replicate them.

It's debatable whether he is a stud.

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Of a person, argumentative.

That debatable individual.

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A fitting subject for debate.

The lack of bonuses isn't debatable.

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Being such that formal argument or discussion is possible.
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Open to dispute; questionable.
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In dispute, as land or territory claimed by more than one country.
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Lending itself to formal debate; having strong points on both sides.
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Origin of debatable

  • From Old French debatable (French débattable)

    From Wiktionary

Debatable Sentence Examples

  • But, although the union of the Roses ought to have extinguished controversy, a host of debatable questions and plausible pretexts for rebellion remained.

  • It is noteworthy that the problems of Hexateuchal criticism are gradually changing their character, as one after another of the main contentions of Biblical scholars regarding the date and authorship of the Hexateuch passes out of the list of debatable questions into that of acknowledged facts.

  • Already Serbia had drawn her western forces into the Ovche Polye area, to dispute possession of the debatable region which Bulgaria claimed, and the II.

  • This was called the Debatable Land, because the possession of it was a constant source of contention between England and Scotland until its boundaries were finally adjusted in 1552.

  • It was his habit to encourage informal reunions of his intimates, to discuss debatable questions in science and theology.

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