"debatable" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: [dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ] [UK] Forms: more debatable [comparative], most debatable [superlative]
Etymology: From Old French debatable (French débattable). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|debatable}} Old French debatable, {{m|fr|débattable}} débattable Head templates: {{en-adj}} debatable (comparative more debatable, superlative most debatable)
  1. Open to debate; not fully proved or confirmed.
    Sense id: en-debatable-en-adj-CzyeXEKF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 20 22
  2. Able to be debated; up for discussion.
    Sense id: en-debatable-en-adj-P9Wv36QW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: debatably Translations (controversial): mübahisəli (Azerbaijani), спо́рны (spórny) (Belarusian), спо́рен (spóren) (Bulgarian), дискусио́нен (diskusiónen) (Bulgarian), discutible (Catalan), diskutabilní (Czech), discutabel (Dutch), betwistbaar (Dutch), kyseenalainen (Finnish), epävarma (Finnish), discutable (French), débattable (French), discutíbel (Galician), discutible (Galician), umstritten (German), fraglich (German), strittig (German), συζητήσιμος (syzitísimos) (Greek), discutibile (Italian), opinabile (Italian), contrōversus [masculine] (Latin), yn-arganey (Manx), sporny (Polish), discutível (Portuguese), debatível (Portuguese), discutabil (Romanian), спо́рный (spórnyj) (Russian), дискуссио́нный (diskussiónnyj) (Russian), diskutabilný (Slovak), discutible (Spanish), спі́рний (spírnyj) (Ukrainian), dadleuol (Welsh)
Disambiguation of 'controversial': 54 46

Noun [English]

IPA: [dɪˈbeɪtəbəɫ] [UK] Forms: debatables [plural]
Etymology: From Old French debatable (French débattable). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|debatable}} Old French debatable, {{m|fr|débattable}} débattable Head templates: {{en-noun}} debatable (plural debatables)
  1. A topic that is open to debate.
    Sense id: en-debatable-en-noun-8mp6BZCM

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  ],
  "word": "debatable"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.