QUESTIONABLE

questionable, refutable, confutable, confutative

(adjective) able to be refuted

questionable

(adjective) subject to question; “questionable motives”; “a questionable reputation”; “a fire of questionable origin”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

questionable (comparative more questionable, superlative most questionable)

Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.

Of dubious respectability or morality.

(obsolete) Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.

Source: Wiktionary

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Ques"tion*a*ble, a.

1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.] Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak.

2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious. It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T. Baker.

Syn.

– Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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