contestable

English

Etymology

From contest +‎ -able.

Adjective

contestable (comparative more contestable, superlative most contestable)

1. That can be contested.

   Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable.

Derived terms

• contestably
• incontestable
• noncontestable
• uncontestable

 

Translations

that can be contested

• Finnish: esteellinen (fi)
• French: contestable (fr)
• Italian: contrastabile (it), oppugnabile (it), contendibile (it)
• Manx: yn-arganey
• Romanian: contestabil (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спо̑ран

  Roman: spȏran (sh)

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French

Etymology

From contester +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛs.tabl/

• Audio:

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Adjective

contestable (plural contestables)

1. contestable

Further reading

• “contestable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.