Disputable

Definition: Disputable

Disputable

Adjective

1. Capable of being disproved.

2. Open to argument or debate.

Date "disputable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Disputable \Dis`pu*ta*ble\, adjective. [Latin expression disputabilis: compare to the French expression disputable. See Dispute, intransitive verb.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Disputable

Synonyms: arguable (adj), debatable (adj), moot (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unbelief Doubt	Doubtful; (uncertain); disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of belief; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be believed, inconceivable; impossible.
Uncertainty	Fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disputable

English words defined with "disputable": Batable ♦ Controvertible ♦ Disputableness ♦ Moot case. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Disputable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (disputable, disputatious).

Domain	Title
Books	Disputable Decisions in Special Education (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
William Penn	It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Disputable, however, as might be the taste of such a termination, it was in itself a charming walk, and the view which closed it extremely pretty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Disputable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Disputable" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	12	101,599

Language		Translations for "disputable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pasigurt (chancy, crazy, Dickey, dicky, doubtful, dubious, faithless, fly-by-night, incalculable, insecure, precarious, questionable, touch and go, tricksy, trustless, truthless, unassured, uncertain, unclear, unreliable, unsafe, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy), i diskutueshëm në gjyq. (various references)

Arabic		‏فيه نظر, ‏قابل للمناقشة (debatable). (various references)

Bulgarian		съмнителен (alleged, ambiguous, amphibious, dingy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fishy, fly-by-night, hedge, hole-and-corner, indeterminate, moot, off beat, phoney, precarious, problematic, queer, questionable, screwy, seedy, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious, uncertain, unsure, vague), спорен (argumentative, attackable, contentious, controversial, debatable, litigious, moot, outstanding, problematic), оспорим (contestable, impugnable), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky). (various references)

Chinese		争议 (Controversial). (various references)

Czech		sporný (at issue, contentious, controversial, debatable, disputant, litigious, polemic, questionable, vexed). (various references)

Dutch		onwederlegbaar rechtsvermoeden (disputable presumption, rebuttable presumption). (various references)

Finnish		riidanalainen (at issue, disputed, subject to dispute). (various references)

French		douteux (dingy), discutable, contestable. (various references)

German		strittig (contentious, controversial, debatable, debatably, iffy). (various references)

Greek		συζητήσιμοσ (arguable, argumentative, controversial, debatable, moot). (various references)

Hungarian		vitatható (arguable, debatable, impugnable, questionable), vitás (at issue, contentious, controversial, disputed, moot, uncertain, vexed), kétségbevonható (impugnable). (various references)

Indonesian		dapat diperbantahkan. (various references)

Italian		disputabile, discutibile (arguable, debatable, moot, questionable), opinabile (arguable, debatable, discussible, questionable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疑わしい (doubtful, questionable, suspicious, uncertain). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うたがわしい (doubtful, questionable, suspicious, uncertain). (various references)

Manx		ouryssagh (agnostic, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, mistrusting, moot, questionable, sceptic, sceptical, shady, suspecting, suspicious), feeu arganeys. (various references)

Norwegian		diskutabel. (various references)

Pig Latin		isputableday

Portuguese		disputável, refutar (confute, ikon, impugnable, meet, negative, oppugn, rebut, refute, scout). (various references)

Romanian		discutabil (arguable, contentious, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, doubtful, impugnable, moot, questionable, undecided), contestabil (contestable, exceptionable, impugnable, questionable), atacabil (assailable, contentious, contestable). (various references)

Russian		спорный (arguable, argumentative, attackable, contentious, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, impugnable, litigious, moot, open to objection, open to question, vexed point, vexed question). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sporan (arguable, contentious, controversial, debatable, disputatious, exceptionable, impugnable, moot, uncertain, vexed). (various references)

Spanish		disputable (disputatious). (various references)

Swedish		diskutabel (arguable, debatable, moot), omtvistlig (debatable). (various references)

Turkish		tartışılabilir (arguable, challengable, contestable, debatable, moot, negotiable, questionable), itiraz edilebilir (contestable, controvertible, exceptionable, objectionable), şüpheli (chancy, contestable, creaky, debatable, discredited, dodgy, doubtful, dubious, dubitative, equivocal, fishy, funny, funny peculiar, hazardous, indecisive, indefinable, murky, nebulous, precarious, problematic, problematical, sceptical, screwy, shadowy, shady, shaky, skeptical, speculative, suspect, suspenseful, suspicious, umbrageous, uncertain, unconvincing). (various references)

Ukrainian		спірний (arguable, argumentative, contentious, controversial, debatable, deniable, eristic, impugnable, litigious, moot, outstanding, vexed). (various references)

Vietnamese		có thể tranh cãi; không chắc, có thể b� n cãi (controvertible, debatable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "disputable": indisputable, undisputable. (additional references)
	Words containing "disputable": indisputableness, indisputablenesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-l-p-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: audibles, baptised, daubiest, dutiable, epiblast, piebalds, plaudits, pulsated, stipuled, sublated, suitable, talipeds.
	-3 letters: abluted, albites, alipeds, aplites, astilbe, audible, audiles, auldest, baldest, baldies, baptise, bastile, belauds, bestial, bilsted, bipedal, blasted, blastie, bustled, dauties, details, dilates, dilutes, disable, dispute, dualist, duelist, dupable, elapids, lapides, paliest, palsied, piebald, plaited, plastid, platies, plaudit, pleiads, pulsate.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-l-p-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: disreputable, disreputably, indisputable, undisputable.
	+4 letters: polybutadienes, unpredictables.
	+5 letters: disreputability, perdurabilities, upgradabilities.
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