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Meanings of refutable in English

Able to be refuted.

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Examples for "questionable"
1
This value judgment is questionable in many important circumstances in public health.
Pubmed
2
Yet again, sorry about the questionable phrasing there, given the subject matter.
The Guardian
3
However, the use of bevacizumab in the general older population is questionable.
Pubmed
4
There's some good work in there and there's some work that's questionable.
The Guardian
5
I believe also it was taken for questionable reasons, writes John Waters.
The Irish Times
1
The greatest part of his writings is not confutable: it is historical and critical.'
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Usage of refutable in English
1
Why burn writing they could so triumphantly refute, if they were refutable?
The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testam...
2
Indeed, M. Bergson might seem to be easily refutable out of his own mouth.
A Pluralistic Universe / Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College ...
3
This hypothesis, which must be refutable, is used to make a prediction about the phenomenon, which is then tested by experiment.
The Irish Times
4
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.
Beyond Good and Evil
Frequent collocations
Refutable through the time