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debatable

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB highly ▪ How far is it reasonable to extrapolate these results to the non-poor is a highly debatable point. ▪ The claim that aid is the answer to Third World poverty is then highly debatable . ▪ As I have already ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debatable \De*bat"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. debatable. See Debate .] Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question. The Debatable Land or or Ground , a tract of land between the Esk ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s (late 15c. in Anglo-Latin), from Old French debatable (Modern French débattable ), from debatre (see debate (v.)). Earliest references were to lands claimed by two nations; general sense is from 1580s.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic" [syn: problematic , problematical ] open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn: arguable , disputable , moot ] capable of being disproved [syn: ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 controversial. Not fully proved, open to debate, sometimes used humorously. 2 Of a person, argumentative. 3 A fitting subject for debate.

Usage examples of debatable.

It was practically safe to assume that the choir ended in an apse, though whether the aisles were also apsidal, or continued round a great apse as an ambulatory, was a debatable point.

I have not spoken before lest ye might have deemed me untrusty: but now I tell thee this, that never should a small band of men unknown win through the lands of the Lord of Utterbol, or the land debatable that lieth betwixt them and Goldburg.

The case put forward by the colonists was historically strong, and there was much to be said for the contention that they were entitled to everything they claimed: on any view they could rightly complain of a cruel injustice, so long as the indolence or incompetence of English diplomacy suffered a debatable land to survive in the teeth of an undebatable argument.

He told us how the Tlapallicos raided across these Debatable Lands, having maps of the sweet waters on their lines of march, and brought back prisoners who were prized for their skill hi featherwork and blanket weaving.

With the dawn of day it could be seen that the Boers held the southern and we the northern slopes, while the narrow plateau between formed a bloody debatable ground.

With the Gnostics, who occupied the debatable ground between primitive Christianity and philosophic paganism, and who inscribed it upon their tombs, the cone symbolized death as well as life.

Parkson's, the well-known theatrical costumiers, and it was addressed to "--(the debatable initial) Cavendish, Esq.

Parkson's, the well-known theatrical costumiers, and it was addressed to "(the debatable initial) Cavendish, Esq.

The Raya, in spite of the season being that of the rains, pressed forward to Mudkal, an important city in the Raichur Doab, or the large triangle of country lying west of the junction of the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, a territory which was ever a debatable ground between the Hindus and Mussulmans, and the scene of constant warfare for the next 200 years.

Three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, where we at the present moment had the debatable fortune to be, the weather conditions can be as beautifully peaceful as any on earth, with mirror-smooth, milky-white seas stretching from horizon to horizon under a canopy of either washed-out blue or stars that are less stars than little chips of frozen fire in a black, black sky.

He could have stuck with finding Mother Abagail and no one would have murmured a word of protest, even though it had to be obvious to every thinking man in the Zone (if there were any thinking men in the Free Zone besides himself-a debatable question) that looking for her with fifteen men was an exercise in comic relief when you considered the thousands of square miles of empty forest and plain around Boulder.

It was a reiver's ballad from the debatable lands below the Oxhead mountains, the long border between the sea and the Drangosh where Borderer and Bedouin fought a duel of raid and counter-raid nearly as old as man on Bellevue.

What effect this trauma had was debatable, although the preponderance of evidence suggested long-lasting and not entirely beneficial sequelae.

Market-wise, this was a major gamble: the improvement was, at first, debatable (many said that the sound quality of the first generation of compact discs was inferior to that of its contemporaneous record players).

There was, however, sufficient ambiguity in the present situation to make for a debatable issue, in that there was also provision for removal without consent for a variety of overriding causes, such as quarantine for species protection, non-military reprisal for violations of certain other provisions, a kind of sensitive catchall for “interstellar security” and several more along these lines, all of which they discussed and rediscussed at great length.