Debatable meaning

dĭ-bā'tə-bəl
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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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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Origin of debatable

From Old French debatable (French débattable)

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.

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

  • Such a sketch must pass lightly over debatable ground, and must consist largely of suggestions still in need of confirmation; but if it serves as a frame into which more precise and more detailed statements may be fitted as they come to the ken of the reader, its object will be attained.

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