Questionable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Questionable \Ques"tion*a*ble\, a.
     1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to
        invite, inquiry. [R.]
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              Thou com'st in such a questionable shape


              That I will speak to thee.            -- Shak.
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     2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in
        question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.
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              It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the
              dissection of a human body.T.         -- Baker.
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     Syn: Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful;
          problematical; suspicious.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  questionable
       adj 1: subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable
              reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin" [ant: {unquestionable}]
       2: able to be refuted [syn: {refutable}, {confutable}, {confutative}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "questionable":
     a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, ambiguous, amoral, arguable,
     at issue, beguiling, beyond belief, borderline, catchy, confutable,
     conjectural, conscienceless, contestable, controversial,
     controvertible, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark,
     debatable, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, deniable,
     devious, dishonest, dishonorable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful,
     dubious, dubitable, equivocal, evasive, fallacious, false,
     felonious, fishy, fly-by-night, fraudulent, hallucinatory,
     hard of belief, hard to believe, hardly possible, iffy, ill-got,
     ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, implausible, improbable,
     in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable,
     incredible, indirect, insidious, misleading, mistakable, moot,
     more than doubtful, not deserving belief, not kosher, obscure,
     open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief,
     preposterous, problematic, problematical, refutable, ridiculous,
     rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, speculative,
     staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick,
     thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trustless, unbelievable,
     uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable,
     unconvincing, undependable, underhand, underhanded, unearthly,
     unethical, ungodly, unimaginable, unlikely, unprincipled,
     unpromising, unreliable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward,
     unsure, unthinkable, untrustworthy, untrusty, unworthy of belief,
     vague, without remorse, without shame