Questionable
['kwestʃ(ə)nəb(ə)l] or ['kwɛstʃənəbl]
Definition
(adj.) able to be refuted .
(adj.) subject to question; 'questionable motives'; 'a questionable reputation'; 'a fire of questionable origin' .
Typist: Nora--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.
(a.) Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.
Typed by Levi
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Doubtful, uncertain, equivocal, problematical, disputable, controvertible, debatable.
Edited by Ben
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Doubtful, dubious, problematical, disputable, debatable, uncertain, suspicious
ANT:Certain, evident, self-evident, obvious, indisputable
Typed by Dewey
Examples
- That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Whether of questionable childishness or not in any other matters, Mr. Skimpole had a child's enjoyment of change and bright weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Even if all students were embryonic scientific specialists, it is questionable whether this is the most effective procedure. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now it will be evident that most of these fundamental statements are very questionable statements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Like the Miller of questionable jollity in the song, They cared for Nobody, no not they, and Nobody cared for them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But they point merely to questionable possibilities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is questionable, indeed, whether that telegraph could have been worked at all through a circuit of many miles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- We were not used to dancing on an even keel, though, and it was only a questionable success. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This shows what sort of a country modern Attica is--a community of questionable characters. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There it was the United States came nearest to imperialism of the Great Power type, and that her record is most questionable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Well, I am a questionable gift, she said quietly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was a book which we know Charlemagne read, or had read to him--for his literary accomplishments are rather questionable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But this result was questionable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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