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Word Meanings - DISPUTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is

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1. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor. 2. Disputatious; contentious. Shak.

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  • DUBIOUSNESS
    State of being dubious.
  • DISPUTABLE
    1. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is
  • FLOATATION
    See FLOTATION
  • DOUBTFULLY
    In a doubtful manner. Nor did the goddess doubtfully declare. Dryden.
  • QUESTIONABLENESS
    The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • UNCERTAINLY
    In an uncertain manner.
  • DUBIOUSLY
    In a dubious manner.
  • SUSPICIOUS
    1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work
  • FLOATABLE
    That may be floated.
  • DOUBTFULNESS
    1. State of being doubtful. 2. Uncertainty of meaning; ambiguity; indefiniteness. " The doubtfulness of his expressions." Locke. 3. Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.
  • DOUBTFUL
    1. Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure. Methinks I should
  • FLOATY
    Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.
  • FLOATINGLY
    In a floating manner.
  • DUBIOUS
    1. Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray. 2. Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable;
  • FLOATAGE
    See FLOTAGE
  • DEBATABLE
    Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question. The Debatable Land or Ground, a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the
  • INESTIMABLE
    Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges. But above all, for thine inestimable love. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Science is
  • UNSETTLEMENT
    The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.
  • UNSETTLE
    To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
  • INDISPUTABLE
    Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute. Syn. -- Incontestable; unquestionable; incontrovertible; undeniable; irrefragable; certain; positive; undoubted; sure; infallible. -- In*dis"pu*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*dis"pu*ta*bly,
  • REFLOAT
    Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
  • PROBLEMATIC; PROBLEMATICAL
    Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.
  • UNQUESTIONABLE
    1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
  • AFLOAT
    1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs

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