Debatable

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  • adjective. Being such that formal argument or discussion is possible.
  • adjective. Open to dispute; questionable.
  • adjective. In dispute, as land or territory claimed by more than one country.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Admitting of debate or argument; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; questionable: as, a debatable question; debatable claims.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute.
  • adjective. a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.
  • adjective. undefined
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously.
  • adjective. Of a person, argumentative.
  • adjective. A fitting subject for debate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. open to argument or debate
  • adjective. capable of being disproved
  • adjective. open to doubt or debate
  • Word Usage
    "Here we have a court ruling relying on a debatable interpretation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. The reason I say "debatable" is that for two other different cases the court has interpreted the same article in exactly the opposite sense."
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