"contestable" meaning in English

See contestable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-contestable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more contestable [comparative], most contestable [superlative]
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  1. That can be contested; debatable. Derived forms: contestably, incontestable, noncontestable, uncontestable Translations (that can be contested): esteellinen (Finnish), contestable (French), contrastabile (Italian), oppugnabile (Italian), contendibile (Italian), yn-arganey (Manx), contestabil (Romanian), спо̑ран [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), spȏran [Latin] (Serbo-Croatian)

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