"contestable" meaning in English

See contestable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more contestable [comparative], most contestable [superlative]
Etymology: contest + -able Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|contest|able}} contest + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} contestable (comparative more contestable, superlative most contestable)
  1. That can be contested. 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 [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian)

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for contestable meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contest",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "contest + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "contest + -able",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more contestable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most contestable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "contestable (comparative more contestable, superlative most contestable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -able",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Serbo-Croatian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That can be contested."
      ],
      "id": "en-contestable-en-adj-qvS9B4qU",
      "links": [
        [
          "contested",
          "contested"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "esteellinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "contestable"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "contrastabile"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "oppugnabile"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "contendibile"
        },
        {
          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "yn-arganey"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "word": "contestabil"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "спо̑ран"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "that can be contested",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "spȏran"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "contestable"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contest",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "contest + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "contest + -able",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more contestable",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most contestable",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "contestable (comparative more contestable, superlative most contestable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -able",
        "Serbo-Croatian terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That can be contested."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "contested",
          "contested"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "esteellinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "contestable"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "contrastabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "oppugnabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "contendibile"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "yn-arganey"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "word": "contestabil"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "спо̑ран"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "that can be contested",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "spȏran"
    }
  ],
  "word": "contestable"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). 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.