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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Questionable \Ques"tion*a*ble\, adjective
1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.]
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. -- Shak.
2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.
It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T. -- Baker.
Syn: Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
questionable
adjective
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
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