questionable
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Adjective (2)
- subject to question“questionable motives”“a questionable reputation”“a fire of questionable origin”Opposite unquestionableSimilar alleged, doubtful, fishy, apocryphal, debatable, self-styled, impugnable, equivocalSee also contestable
- able to be refutedSynonyms: refutableconfutableconfutativeOpposite undeniableSimilar deniable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ques′tion·a·ble adjective
1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. rare
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee.— William Shakespeare
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.— Sir Richard Baker
Synonyms: Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54