Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Open to doubt or challenge; problematic.
- adj. Not yet determined or specified.
- adj. Of dubious morality or respectability: a questionable reputation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being questioned or inquired of; inviting or seeming to invite inquiry or conversation.
- Liable to question; suspicious; doubtful; uncertain; disputable: as, the deed is of questionable authority; his veracity is questionable.
Wiktionary
- adj. Problematic; open to doubt or challenge
- adj. Of dubious respectability or morality
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.
- adj. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. subject to question
- adj. able to be refuted
Etymologies
- question + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I. iv.43 (180,4) questionable shape] [By _questionable_ is meant provoking question.”
“The problem was, he seemed smart enough to avoid that and to always make her word questionable in front of a third party.”
“They decide to try to change the story from the economic meltdown by attacking Obama for what they call questionable past associations when McCain has the Keating 5 in his past.”
McCain Lawyer: McCain Did Nothing Wrong Amid Keating Five Scandal
“Why are you trying to distinguish between what you call questionable and cartoonish anyway?”
Hillary Privately Urging Her Pledged Delegates To Vote For Obama At Convention
“He says his subcommittee found $16 billion in what he calls questionable transactions from three major banks, including Citigroup, which made an $8 billion loan to Dubai in December.”
“Investigators from six states showed up unannounced to Wachovia's headquarters because of what they call questionable business practices.”
“Now when I read in the passage from two years ago about Muslims and killing Jews, he admitted that this school did have some what he called questionable passages in its textbooks but have since taken them out.”
“BASH: He did not answer a question about who may be responsible for 380 tons of high-level explosives missing in Iraq, but his campaign did, saying they believe John Kerry attacked the president a day earlier based on what they call questionable information.”
“The report criticizes what it calls questionable accounting methods used by the Obama administration to count "green jobs" and says the term is vague and poorly defined.”
“International Development Agency awards funding after a series of what they call questionable decisions.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘questionable’.
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Wordplay
reticent, slammerkin, moonstruck, zephyr, gallivant, hullabaloo, pandemonium, equestrian, wallflower, martyr, threadbare, treacherous and 180 more...
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Tory's First Wordie List
perambulate, mumpsimus, euphoric, peripatetic, mellifluous, soporific, neologism, nihilism, nepotism, effervescent, lascivious, esoteric and 217 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
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must employ on more frequent occasions
These words I know, I just haven't used them in a while. Time to bring them back into vogue.
questionable, mishap, hectic, prone, departure, retrieve, elsewhere, insurmountable, distraught, immeasurable, potent, ravenous and 76 more...
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Words Evoking Suspiciousness
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