questionable

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
questionable
    adj 1: subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a
           questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"
           [ant: {unquestionable}]
    2: able to be refuted [syn: {questionable}, {refutable},
       {confutable}, {confutative}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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