disputable

Learned borrowing from Latin disputābilis.^[1] By surface analysis, dispute +‎ -able.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspjuː.tə.bəɫ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspju.tə.bəɫ/

disputable (comparative more disputable, superlative most disputable)

1. Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled.

• controvertible

• “disputable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “disputable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /dispuˈtable/ [d̪is.puˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: dis‧pu‧ta‧ble

disputable m or f (masculine and feminine plural disputables)

1. disputable

• “disputable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025